Article ID: CBB955450628

The Seven Secluded Monkeys of Conrad Gessner (2020)

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Conrad Gessner is considered a major encyclopedist of the 16th century. His work is a benchmark in natural history studies. It is an enormous effort that covered the zoological information known until that century. In his publications, illustrations were a fundamental component that paralleled the textual narratives. Those noteworthy images followed different paths before being re-conceived as xylographies to be printed as part of those natural history books and presented to the public. A large set of drawings used by Gessner in the Felix Platter collection remained unknown and hidden for almost four centuries in Amsterdam. The colorful primates of this collection stand as reminders of an early history of the circulation of scientific knowledge and imaginaries of animals. They visually influenced further zoological works and were initial accounts about the diversity of this mammal group.

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Authors & Contributors
Kusukawa, Sachiko
Fischel, Angela
Canington, Stephanie L.
Rogers, Ethan S.
Funk, H.
Ford, Lisa
Concepts
Visual representation; visual communication
Books
Natural history
Illustrations
Scientific illustration
Science and art
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
18th century
Early modern
19th century
17th century
Places
Zurich (Switzerland)
Bologna (Italy)
South America
North America
Italy
France
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