Language:
שפה נוכחית
Sign in with Google
Sign in with Facebook
The art of natural history
Enlarge text Shrink text- Book
| Title |
The art of natural history : illustrated treatises and botanical paintings, 1400-1850 / edited by Therese O'Malley and Amy R.W. Meyers. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
O'Malley, Therese Meyers, Amy R. W. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S) |
| Publisher |
Washington : National Gallery of Art |
| Creation Date |
2008 |
| Notes |
"Proceedings of the symposium "The Art and History of Botanical Painting and Natural History Tresatises," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts... The symposium was held [at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.] 3-4 May 2002."--Verso t.p. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Content |
Artisanal knowledge and the representation of nature in sixteenth-century Germany / Pamela H. Smith -- Botany and humanism in the Renaissance : background, interaction, contradictions / Alain Touwaide -- The uses of botanical treatises in the Netherlands, c. 1600 / Claudia Swan -- Between observation and image : representations of insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia / Janice Neri -- Eyes of the new Pliny : the use of images in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias / Jesús Carrillo Castillo -- Mexican nature in Diego Valadés' Rhetorica christiana (1579) / Lina Bolzoni -- From Florence to Philadelphia : naturalistic illustration in Tuscany, c. 1760-c. 1840 / Alessandro Tosi -- "La femminil pazienza" : women painters and natural history in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi -- Garden book made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1593 : Hans Puechfeldner's Nützliches Khünstbüech der Gartnereij / Erik A. d De Jong -- "Cosmic delight" : Bartolomeo Bimbi and the representation of nature at the court of Cosimo III de' Medici / Hans W. Hubert -- Congenial climate of coffeehouse horticulture : the Historia plantarum rariorum and the Catalogus plantarum / Mark Laird -- Appendix, Club at the Temple Coffee House / Margaret Riley. |
| Series |
Studies in the history of art 69 Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual arts 46 |
| Extent |
279 pages : ill. (some color), facsims., plans, ports 29 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990026555240205171 |
תנאי השימוש:
Prohibition of copying
It may be prohibited to copy and use of the item for purposes of reproduction, publication, distribution, public performance, broadcasting, dissemination via the internet or by any other means, and creating a derivative work of the item (for example, translation, modification or adaptation) in any form or by any means, including digital or analog media, without prior agreement of the copyright owner and/or the owner of the collection.
To check the use of an item, please complete the Inquiry for Copyright form.
Additional information: The item may be subject to copyright and/or terms of agreement.
If you believe that there is an error in the information above, or in case of any concern of copyright infringement in connection with this item, contact us using the Inquiry for Copyright form.
MARC RECORDS
Have more information? Found a mistake?
