Book ID: CBB453458663

Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630 (2017)

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Egmond, Florike (Author)


Reaktion Books


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 288 pages
Language: English

Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used half a millennium ago. Exploring the world of natural history drawings from the Renaissance, Eye for Detail shows how the function of identification led to image manipulation techniques that will look uncannily familiar to the modern viewer.             Egmond shows how the format of images in nature studies changed dramatically during the Renaissance period, as high-definition naturalistic representation became the rule during a robust output of plant and animal drawings. She examines what visual techniques like magnification can tell us about how early modern Europeans studied and ordered living nature, and she focuses on how attention to visual detail was motivated by an overriding question: the secret of the origins of life. Beautifully and precisely illustrated throughout, this volume serves as an arresting guide to the massive European collections of nature drawings and an absorbing study of natural history art of the sixteenth century.

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Review Sietske Fransen (2018) Review of "Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 148-150). unapi

Review Katherine M. Reinhart (2018) Review of "Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 292-294). unapi

Review Natalie Lawrence (2018) Review of "Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630". Archives of Natural History (pp. 191-192). unapi

Review Alexander Wragge-Morley (2018) Review of "Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 521-522). unapi

Review Sachiko Kusukawa (2018) Review of "Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 149-150). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Simonini, G.
Lawrence P. Reynolds
Tramelli, Barbara
Giuseppe Papagno
Peter Sahlins
Jutta Gisela Sperling
Concepts
Science and art
Scientific illustration
Illustrations
Visual representation; visual communication
Natural history
Botany
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
Renaissance
Places
Italy
Europe
Atlantic Ocean
South America
Netherlands
Latin America
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