『The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850』

Therese O'Malley and Amy R. W. Meyers (eds.)

(2008年4月刊行,Yale University Press[Studies in the History of Arts 69], New Haven, 279 pp., ISBN:9780300121582 [hbk] / ISBN:9780300160246 [pbk] → 関連情報

【目次】
Preface (Elizabeth Cropper) 7
Introduction (Therese O'Malley and Amy R. W. Meyers) 9
Artisanal knowledge and the representation of nature in sixteenth-century Germany (Pamela H. Smith) 15
Botany and humanism in the Renaissance: Background, interaction, contradictions (Alain Touwaide) 33
The uses of botanical treatises in the Netherlands, c. 1600 (Claudia Swan) 63
Between observation and image: Representations of insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia (Janice Neri) 83
The eyes of the new Pliny: The uses of images in Gonzalo Fernándes de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias (Jesús Carrillo Castillo) 109
Mexican nature in Diego Valdés' Rhetorica christiana (1579) (Lina Bolzani) 127
From Florence to Philadelphia: Naturalistic illustration in Tuscany, c. 1760-c. 1840 (Alessandro Tosi) 143
"La femminil pazienza": Women painters and natural history in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. (Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi) 159
A garden book made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1593: Hans Puechfelder's Nützliches Khünstbüech der Gartnereih (Erik A de Jong) 187
"Cosmic delight": Bartolomeo Bimbi and the representation of nature (Hans W. Hubert) 205
The congenial climate of coffeehouse horticulture: The Historia plantarum rariorum and the Catalogus plantarum (Mark Laird); Appendix: The club at the Temple Coffee House (Margaret Riley) 227
Contributors 261
Index 265