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The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700
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The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700

Author: Janice Neri
Publisher: Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Janice Neri
ISBN: 9780816667642 0816667640 9780816667659 0816667659
OCLC Number: 719427915
Description: xxvii, 233 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction. Specimen logic --
Insects as objects and insects as subjects : establishing conventions for illustrating insects. Joris Hoefnagel's imaginary insects : inventing an artistic identity --
Cutting and pasting nature into print : Ulisse Aldrovandi's and Thomas Moffet's images of insects --
Suitable for framing : insects in early still life paintings --
New worlds and new selves. Between observation and image : representations of insects in Robert Hooke's micrographia --
Stitches, specimens, and pictures : Maria Sibylla Merian and the processing of the natural world --
Conclusion. Discipline and specimenize.
Responsibility: Janice Neri.
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