Eye for Detail. Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500–1630
Eye for Detail. Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500–1630
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艺术和科学中的植物和动物图像,1500-1630
DOI:
10.1093/jhc/fhx004
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发表时间:
2017
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0.2
通讯作者:
A. M. Roos
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作者:
A. M. Roos
In making these assertions, Egmond’s work builds upon the scholarship of Brian Ogilvie, who noted that ‘past histories of Renaissance natural history have overemphasized the theoretical and philosophical elements in natural history, particularly taxonomy and classification, while neglecting or treating as selfevidently worthwhile the specific achievements of Renaissance natural history: the recognition of the vast diversity of the animal and vegetable world, the establishment of a community of scholars engaged in a common enterprise, and the elaboration within that community of methods for discovering new natural kinds and describing them precisely’(The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (Chicago, 2006). Egmond’s almost forensic analysis elucidates very well the visual techniques of precise description of sixteenth-century naturalia, including layering of images, zooming for detail, enlarged inserts, and decontextualized rendering. She also makes the suggestion that the visual tradition and interest in detail representative of fifteenth-century Burgundian