Book ID: CBB000830825

The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850 (2008)

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O'Malley, Therese (Editor)
Meyers, Amy R. W. (Editor)


National Gallery of Art


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Proceedings of the symposium “The Art and History of Botanical Painting and Natural History Treatises” held 3-4 May 2002 in Washington, D.C.
Physical Details: 279 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents (from WorldCat):


Includes Chapters

Chapter Smith, Pamela H. (2008) Artisanal Knowledge and the Representation of Nature in Sixteenth-Century Germany. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Touwaide, Alain (2008) Botany and Humanism in the Renaissance: Background, Interaction, Contradictions. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Swan, Claudia (2008) Uses of Botanical Treatises in the Netherlands, c. 1600. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Neri, Janice (2008) Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Castillo, Jesús Carrillo (2008) Eyes of the New Pliny: The Use of Images in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Bolzoni, Lina (2008) Mexican Nature in Diego Valadés' Rhetorica Christiana (1579). In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Tosi, Alessandro (2008) From Florence to Philadelphia: Naturalistic Illustration in Tuscany, c. 1760--c. 1840. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi (2008) “La Femminil Pazienza”: Women Painters and Natural History in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Jong, Erik A. de (2008) Garden Book Made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1593: Hans Puechfeldner's Nützliches Khünstbüech der Gartnereij. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Hubert, Hans W. (2008) “Cosmic Delight”: Bartolomeo Bimbi and the Representation of Nature at the Court of Cosimo III de' Medici. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Laird, Mark (2008) Congenial Climate of Coffeehouse Horticulture: The Historia Plantarum Rariorum and the Catalogus Plantarum. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

Chapter Riley, Margaret (2008) Appendix, Club at the Temple Coffee House. In: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400--1850. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jorink, Eric
Etheridge, Kay
Lawrence P. Reynolds
Stronks, Els
Jutta Gisela Sperling
Ramakers, Bart
Concepts
Science and art
Natural history
Illustrations
Visual representation; visual communication
Painters and painting
Scientific illustration
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
15th century
Places
Netherlands
Germany
Spain
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Florence (Italy)
South America
Institutions
Museo del Prado
Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin
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