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BL
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636750
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Neri, Janice
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| Title & Author
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The insect and the image : : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 /\ Janice Neri
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, c2011
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xxvii, 233 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm
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| ISBN
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9780816667642 (hc : alk. paper)
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: 0816667640 (hc : alk. paper)
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: 9780816667659 (pb : alk. paper)
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: 0816667659 (pb : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction. Specimen logic -- Insects as objects and insects as subjects : establishing conventions for illustrating insects. Joris Hoefnagel's imaginary insects : inventing an artistic identity -- Cutting and pasting nature into print : Ulisse Aldrovandi's and Thomas Moffet's images of insects -- Suitable for framing : insects in early still life paintings -- New worlds and new selves. Between observation and image : representations of insects in Robert Hooke's micrographia -- Stitches, specimens, and pictures : Maria Sibylla Merian and the processing of the natural world -- Conclusion. Discipline and specimenize
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Insects in art
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Art, European-- Themes, motives
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| Dewey Classification
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704.9/43257094
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| LC Classification
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N7668.I56N47 2011
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