The insect and the image
Subtitle: visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700
By: Janice Neri
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis [Minn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780816667642; 9780816667659
Subjects: European Art; Themes, motives; Insects in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Specimen logic; title: Insects as objects and insects as subjects : establishing conventions for illustrating insects. Joris Hoefnagel's imaginary insects : inventing an artistic identity; title: Cutting and pasting nature into print : Ulisse Aldrovandi's and Thomas Moffet's images of insects; title: Suitable for framing : insects in early still life paintings; title: New worlds and new selves. Between observation and image : representations of insects in Robert Hooke's micrographia; title: Stitches, specimens, and pictures : Maria Sibylla Merian and the processing of the natural world; title: Conclusion. Discipline and specimenize.