The art of natural history: illustrated treatises and botanical paintings, 1400-1850

‘Making knowledge visible’ is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by illustrators at a time when the study of nature, as a product of the Renaissance, had been assuming new authority in the world of learning. An absorbing exploration of the relationship between image and text, thiscollection considers how both media aided the development and transmission ofscientific knowledge.

• ISBN: 978-0-300-16024-6
• Editorial: Yale University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés