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Author Neri, Janice.
Title The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 / Janice Neri.
Publication Info Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.


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Descript 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.
ISBN 9780816667659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816667659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816667642 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0816667640 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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Author Neri, Janice.
Subject Insects in art.
Art, European -- Themes, motives.
Descript 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.
ISBN 9780816667659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816667659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816667642 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0816667640 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Author Neri, Janice.
Subject Insects in art.
Art, European -- Themes, motives.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 7th Floor  N 7668 I56 N4  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Insects in art.
Art, European -- Themes, motives.
Descript 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.
ISBN 9780816667659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816667659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816667642 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0816667640 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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