Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life-Casting Techniques*
Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life-Casting Techniques*
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自然与艺术，创造与认知：重建十六世纪的生活铸造技术*
DOI：
10.1086/652535
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
T. Beentjes
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作者：
P. Smith;T. Beentjes
摘要 十六世纪欧洲的几乎每个艺术馆都藏有小型爬行动物或植物，它们是用各种媒介从生活中铸造出来的。这种广泛使用的技术使用最近被杀死的小型动物作为图案来创造栩栩如生的雕塑，通常比手工雕刻的作品更受重视。一份未经研究的 16 世纪末法国技术手稿记录了一位从业者在现实铸造等方面的实验。本文在此论文的基础上探讨了生命铸造的技术和意义，结合了对现存的十六世纪欧洲生命铸造的考察以及对手稿食谱和技术说明的重建，认为十六世纪的生命铸造在一定程度上被视为了解自然的一种手段。
Abstract Almost every Kunstkammer in sixteenth-century Europe contained small reptiles or plants cast from life in a variety of media. This widespread technique, which used small, recently killed animals as a pattern to create lifelike sculptures, was often prized more highly than works sculpted with the hand. An unstudied, late sixteenth-century French technical manuscript records a practitioner's experiments in casting from life, among many other subjects. This article investigates both the techniques and the significance of life-casting on the basis of this treatise, incorporating the examination of surviving sixteenth-century European life casts and the reconstruction of the manuscript's recipes and technical instructions, arguing that life-casting in the sixteenth century was viewed in part as a means to the knowledge of nature.