Neri, Janice L. (Author)
This dissertation examines images of insects in a number of contexts---natural history, manuscript illumination, microscopy, textile design and cabinets of curiosity---as a means of understanding how images participated in the construction of nature in early modern Europe. The project also considers how concepts of truth and accuracy in visual images were established and sustained among artistic and scientific communities during the period 1550--1700. In the dissertation I argue for the mutually constituted relationship between images and the natural world; rather than simply creating images that reflected nature, image-makers such as Joris Hoefnagel, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Thomas Moffet, Robert Hooke and Maria Sibylla Merian actively participated in defining the content and scope of the natural world for themselves and their audiences. Images that to modern eyes might seem to be straightforward descriptions were for early modern Europeans both new and complexly constructed ways of understanding the world.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 64 (2003): 5. UMI order no. 3078781.
Article
Ogilvie, Brian W.;
(2008)
Nature's Bible: Insects in Seventeenth-Century European Art and Science
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Chapter
Etheridge, Kay;
(2011)
Maria Sibylla Merian: The First Ecologist?
(/isis/citation/CBB001221547/)
Book
Attenborough, David;
Owens, Susan;
Clayton, Martin;
Alexandratos, Rea;
(2007)
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
(/isis/citation/CBB000772794/)
Book
Fischel, Angela;
(2009)
Natur im Bild. Zeichnung und Naturerkenntnis bei Conrad Gessner und Ulisse Aldrovandi
(/isis/citation/CBB001020524/)
Thesis
Berns, Andrew;
(2011)
The Natural Philosophy of the Biblical World: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Late Renaissance Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB001567286/)
Chapter
Fischel, Angela;
(2015)
Popularizing Science. Drawing and the Contemplation of Nature: Natural History around 1600: The Case of Aldrovandi's Images
(/isis/citation/CBB001551695/)
Chapter
Eric Jorink;
(2018)
Insects, Philosophy and the Microscope
(/isis/citation/CBB719121215/)
Book
Henry, John;
(2012)
Religion, Magic, and the Origins of Science in Early Modern England
(/isis/citation/CBB001252999/)
Chapter
Hochstrasser, Julie Berger;
(2010)
The Butterfly Effect: Embodied Cognition and Perceptual Knowledge in Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
(/isis/citation/CBB001000156/)
Book
Neri, Janice;
(2011)
The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1700
(/isis/citation/CBB001221160/)
Book
Kay Etheridge;
(2020)
The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book
(/isis/citation/CBB477782885/)
Book
Hoerner, Wilhelm;
(1991)
Der Schmetterling: Metamorphose und Urbild. Eine naturkundliche Studie mit einer Lebensbeschreibung und Bildern aus dem Werk der Maria Sibylla Merian
(/isis/citation/CBB000046756/)
Book
Merian, Maria Sibylla;
(1991)
Das Insektenbuch: Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. [Begleittext von Deckert, Helmut Übertragung des niederländischen Textes von Worgt, Gerhard unter fachwissenschaftlicher Beratung von Hans-Joachim Hannemann]
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Article
Madrid Casado, Carlos Miguel;
(2010)
La Representación de la Técnica y de la Ciencia entre los Siglos XVI al XVIII en la Colección del Museo del Prado
(/isis/citation/CBB001033797/)
Book
Bert Van De Roemer;
Florence Pieters;
Hans Mulder;
Kay Etheridge;
Marieke Van Delft;
(2022)
Maria Sibylla Merian
(/isis/citation/CBB825530463/)
Article
Valiant, Sharon D.;
(1992)
Questioning the caterpillar
(/isis/citation/CBB000032529/)
Book
Todd, Kim;
(2007)
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
(/isis/citation/CBB000930388/)
Chapter
Schneider, Christiane;
(1991)
“Sibylle à Surinam va chercher la nature ...”: Maria Sibylla Merians Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
(/isis/citation/CBB000038966/)
Chapter
Mersch, Dieter;
(2008)
Representation and Distortion: On the Construction of Rationality and Irrationality in Early Modern Modes of Representation
(/isis/citation/CBB000831232/)
Article
Tosi, Alessandro;
(2013)
Tennis in Early Modern Visual Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB001252890/)
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