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Media type:
Book
Title:
The insect and the image
:
visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500 - 1700
Contains:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index