Amazing Rare Things
Subtitle: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780300125474
Subjects: General; History; History - General; Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals; Science / General; Science; Exhibitions; Natural history illustration; Royal Collection (Great Britain); Science/Mathematics
Description: Describes the methods by which selected European artists, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Mark Catesby, portrayed the natural world during the Age of Discovery.