| Description |
279 pages : illustrations ( chiefly color) ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in the history of art ; 69 |
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Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual arts ; 46 |
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Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; v. 69.
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Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 46.
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| Note |
"Proceedings of the symposium 'The Art and History of Botanical Painting and Natural History Treatises,' sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in honor of Franklin D. Murphy. The symposium was held 3-4 May 2002 in Washington." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Artisanal knowledge and the representation of nature in sixteenth-century Germany / Pamela H. Smith -- Botany and humanism in the Renaissance : background, interaction, contradictions / Alain Touwaide -- Uses of botanical treatises in the Netherlands, c. 1600 / Claudia Swan -- Between observation and image : representations of insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia / Janice Neri -- Eyes of the new Pliny : the use of images in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias / Jesús Carrillo Castillo -- Mexican nature in Diego Valadés' Rhetorica christiana (1579) / Lina Bolzoni -- From Florence to Philadelphia : naturalistic illustration in Tuscany, c. 1760-c. 1840 / Alessandro Tosi -- "La femminil pazienza" : women painters and natural history in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi -- Garden book made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1593 : Hans Puechfeldner's Nützliches Khünstbüech der Gartnereij / Erik A. d De Jong -- "Cosmic delight" : Bartolomeo Bimbi and the representation of nature at the court of Cosimo III de' Medici / Hans W. Hubert -- Congenial climate of coffeehouse horticulture : the Historia plantarum rariorum and the Catalogus plantarum / Mark Laird -- Appendix, Club at the Temple Coffee House / Margaret Riley. |
| Subject |
Natural history illustration -- Congresses.
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Art and science -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
O'Malley, Therese.
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Meyers, Amy R. W.
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Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
9780300121582 alkaline paper |
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030012158X alkaline paper |
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