Book ID: CBB000772794

Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery (2007)

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Attenborough, David (Author)
Owens, Susan (Author)
Clayton, Martin (Author)
Alexandratos, Rea (Author)


Royal Collection


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: 223 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “Focuses on natural history drawings and watercolors by Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Mark Catesby, and from the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo---works all held in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.” (from the publisher)


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Authors & Contributors
Etheridge, Kay
McBurney, Henrietta
Alan H. Brush
F. J. M. Pieters
M.J. Brush
Fairman, Elisabeth R.
Journals
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Archives of Natural History
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Renaissance Studies
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Catesby Commemorative Trust Inc.
Yale Univ. Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
University of Minnesota Press
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fides
Concepts
Science and art
Visual representation; visual communication
Natural history
Scientific illustration
Painters and painting
Nature
People
Catesby, Mark
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Leonardo da Vinci
Taylor White
Rubens, Peter Paul
Raffael
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
15th century
Early modern
Places
South Carolina (U.S.)
North Carolina (U.S.)
Bahamas
Americas
South America
Netherlands
Institutions
McGill University (Canada)
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