Art, science, and witchcraft in early modern Holland : Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629)
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Art, science, and witchcraft in early modern Holland : Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629)
（Cambridge studies in Netherlandish visual culture）
Cambridge University Press, 2005
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland is the first sustained study to offer an account of the rise of scientific naturalism in Dutch art and the simultaneous interest in fantastic imagery, representations of witches in particular. Claudia Swan uses the work of artist Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629) to explore the reciprocity between visual representation and early modern descriptive science, and of the parallel demonological theories of the human imagination and artistic theories of creation. This book is the first to examine De Gheyn's work in the context of cultural history and image theory.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Jacques de Gheyn II and the Representation of the Natural World: 1. De Gheyn in Leiden: approximating nature
- 2. Making nature: the Lugt album
- 3. Patterns of experience, pictures of nature
- Part II. Unnatural Sights: Witchcraft and Phantasia: 4. The wherewithal of de Gheyn's witches
- 5. Seeing witches: thinking about witchcraft in the Netherlands ca. 1600
- 6. Trouble in the Ventricles: Phantasia, melancholy, witchcraft.
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