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Cut Flowers (2017)

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Designations of still life as natura morta, nature morte, naturaleza muerta are based on a gross misunderstanding. We are only beginning to fully understand how masterfully the genre played with the supposed boundaries between the living and dead. It is above all floral still life painting after 1600, in which the intermediate state between life and death is centrally thematized. Where do cut plants actually derive their mysterious liveliness? Throughout its history the study of botany focused on the reality and mystery of plant metabolism. As scientists fiercely debated the nutritional aspect of floral still life in the horizon of its precarious liveliness, Dutch painters experimented with making visible the mysterious interiority of vases. In this way, still life painters modelled the larger epistemic problem of plant nutrition, self-preservation, and life not in terms of a positive answer, or hypothesis, but as an enigmatic field, an open question.

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Article Eva Struhal (2017) Introduction: Who Can Read the Book of Nature? Early Modern Artists and Scientists in Dialogue. Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 501-513). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Morton-Evans, Christine
John A. Edgington
Cabré i Pairet, Montserrat
Corbett, Jane Paisley Russell
Dekker, Elly
Israel, Jonathan Irvine
Journals
Archives of Natural History
British Journal for the History of Science
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Der Globusfreund: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde
Food and History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
Antique Collectors' Club
Editorial de la Universidad de Cantabria
National Gallery of Art
National Library of Australia
Rizzoli
Royal Collection
Concepts
Science and art
Painters and painting
Botany
Natural history
Flowers
Illustrations
People
Bradley, Richard
Rowan, Ellis
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
Brueghel, Jan the Elder
Eckhout, Albert van Der
Hooke, Robert
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
16th century
Enlightenment
Places
Netherlands
East Indies
Africa
Brazil
Tuscany (Italy)
Europe
Institutions
British Library
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