Art and science in the early modern Netherlands Kunst en wetenschap in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden
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Art and science in the early modern Netherlands = Kunst en wetenschap in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden
（Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek, d. 61）
WBooks, c2011
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Art and science are commonly considered to be two distinct expressions of human culture. This volume of the Netherlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek is devoted to the extremely rich and complex relationship between these two in the early modern Netherlands, a relationship which went much further than the use of linear perspective in painting. Both in theory and in everyday practice, the distinction between 'art' and 'science' was hard to sustain, and often proved to be not that relevant at all. Artists perfected the portrayal of human anatomy, natural historians reflected on the visual representation of previously unknown forms of life, and wealthy citizens possessed cabinets of curiosities in which naturalia and articificalia shared prominence. The case studies in this rich and challenging volume explore such topics as the influence of pictography, theories of vision and colour, the influence of Cartesian natural philosophy on art theory, and the allegorisation of science in Dutch frontispieces, amongst others.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
"Undivided Territory: `Art' and `Science' in the Early Modern Netherlands", Eric Jorink & Bart Ramakers
"The Historiography of Perspective and Reflexy-Const in Netherlandish Art", Sven Dupre
"The Camel's Head: Representing Unseen Animals in Sixteenth-Century Europe", Daniel Margocsy
"Jan Brueghel's Allegory of Air (1621) from a Natural Historical Perspective", Marrigje Rikken & Paul J. Smith
"Painted Poison: Venomous Beasts, Herbs, Gems, and Baroque Colour Theory", Karin Leonhard
"Beyond the Lines of Apelles: Johannes Swammerdam, Dutch Scientific Culture and the Representation of Insect Anatomy", Eric Jorink
"Regulating the Arts: Willem Goeree versus Samuel van Hoogstraten", Gijsbert M. van de Roemer
"The Light of Nature and the Allegorisation of Science on Dutch Frontispieces around 1700", Rienk Vermij
"From Hieroglyphs to Universal Characters: Pictography in the Early Modern Netherlands", Thijs Weststeijn
"Art, Science and Religion in Romeyn de Hooghe's Hieroglyphica", Joke Spaans
"`Will the Eye be the Sole Judge?': `Science' and `Art' in the Optical Inquiries of Lambert ten Kate and Hendrik van Limborch around 1710", Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
"Staging Nature: Observation, Imagination and Experience in E.M. Post's Het land, in brieven (1788)", Bart Ramakers
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