Article ID: CBB001030622

Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life-Casting Techniques (2010)

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Description Argues “that life-casting in the sixteenth century was viewed in part as a means to the knowledge of nature.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Masseti, Marco
Christy Anderson
Anne Dunlop
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Čermáková, Lucie
Černá, Jana
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Journal of the History of Collections
Journal of the History of Biology
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Northwestern University
University of North Carolina Press
Springer
Reaktion Books
Princeton University Press
National Gallery of Art
Concepts
Science and art
Natural history
Animals
Plants
Visual representation; visual communication
Scientific illustration
People
Gesner, Konrad
Henricus Reneri
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo
White, John
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Pliny the Elder
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
18th century
Early modern
15th century
Places
Italy
Netherlands
Herculaneum
Pisa (Italy)
Virginia (U.S.)
Pompeii (Italy)
Institutions
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
British Museum
Habsburg, House of
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