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Reaktion Books Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630

Name: Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630
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Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse and layering are often linked to the age of photography, but they were already being used half a millennium ago for the purposes of identification and study. This is why Renaissance drawings of plants and animals are immediately recognizable to the modern viewer. Discussing natural history images made throughout Europe during the sixteenth century, Eye for Detail traces the early history of image manipulation techniques. Florike Egmond shows how the roles and formats of images in nature study changed dramatically during this period, as high-definition naturalistic representation became the rule, and large image collections of plants and animals were created for identification and illustration. She investigates what the use of visual techniques like magnification can tell us about how early modern Europeans studied and ordered living nature, and focuses on how attention to visual detail reveals the overriding question that continued to occupy the minds of naturalists from antiquity well into the modern age: the secret of how life originates. Featuring many striking colour illustrations that have never been published before, this beautiful volume is an arresting guide to the large Continental collections of naturalia drawings and an absorbing study of natural history art of the sixteenth century.

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Brand: Reaktion Books
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1780236409
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts > Landscapes & Seascapes
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 17 October 2016
Listed Since: 14 December 2015

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