Thesis ID: CBB001562251

Fantastic Observations: Images of Insects in Early Modern Europe (2003)

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Neri, Janice L. (Author)


University of California, Irvine
Bauer, George C.


Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Advisor: Bauer, George C.
Physical Details: 277 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 64 (2003): 5. UMI order no. 3078781.


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Authors & Contributors
Etheridge, Kay
Fischel, Angela
Michael Ritterson
Hans Mulder
Delft, Marieke Van
Berns, Andrew
Concepts
Entomology
Visual representation; visual communication
Natural history
Science and art
Insects
Scientific illustration
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
18th century
15th century
Renaissance
Places
South America
Netherlands
Germany
Suriname
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
England
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