The art of natural history : illustrated treatises and botanical paintings, 1400-1850 / edited by Therese O'Malley and Amy R.W. Meyers.

Title & Author:

The art of natural history : illustrated treatises and botanical paintings, 1400-1850 / edited by Therese O'Malley and Amy R.W. Meyers.

Publication:

Description:

279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.

Series:

Studies in the history of art ; 69
Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual arts ; 46

Notes:
"Proceedings of the symposium 'The Art and History of Botanical Painting and Natural History Treatises, ' organized by the Center of Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in honor of Franklin D. Murphy. The symposium was held 3-4 May 2002 in Washington."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Artisanal knowledge and the representation of nature in the sixteenth-century Germany -- Botany and humanism in the renaissance: background, interaction, contradictions -- Uses of botanical treaties in the Netherlands -- Between observation and image: representations of insects in Robert Hooke's micrographia -- Eyes of the New Pliny: the use of images in Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's historia general y natural de las Indias -- Mexican nature in Diego Valades' Rhetorica Christiana -- From florence to Philadelphia: naturalistic illustration in Tuscany -- "La femminil paziena" Women painters and natural history in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- Garden book made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1593: Hans Puechfeldner's Nutzliches khunstbuech de gartnereij -- "Cosmic delight": Batolomeo Bimbi and the representation of nature at the court of Cosimo III de' Medici -- Congenial climate of coffeehouse horticulture: historia plantarum rariorum and the catalogus plantrum.

ISBN:

9780300160246 (pbk.)
0300160240 (pbk.)

Subject:

Natural history illustration Congresses.
Art and science Congresses.
Illustration en sciences naturelles Congrès.
Art et sciences Congrès.
Art and science
Natural history illustration

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

O'Malley, Therese.
Meyers, Amy R. W.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; v. 69.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; v. 69.

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Location: Library main 266204
Call No.: BIB 197841
Status: Available

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