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Coveting Nature: Art, Collecting, and Natural History in Early Modern Europe
Coveting Nature explores the ways in which botanists and entomologists worked in tandem with artists to record and disseminate knowledge in the early modern period (1500颅鈥�1800).
In these centuries, the refinement of printed images revolutionized the observational sciences. Increasingly sophisticated woodcuts and engravings superseded hand-drawn images, cruder prints, and strictly verbal descriptions, while also appealing to artists and art lovers. These images could be augmented with hand coloring and were made by professional printmakers as well as by author-illustrators who engraved the plates for their own publications. Illustrated botanical and entomological publications served a variety of purposes for contemporaries鈥攖hey advanced scientific study, inspired religious contemplation, and served as models for artists including still life painters and embroiderers. Coveting Nature also explores the early and significant contributions of female artists and naturalists such as Maria Sibylla Merian (1647鈥�1717) and Anna Ruysch (1666鈥�1754) and their enduring legacy for contemporary artists.
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Coveting Nature explores the ways in which botanists and entomologists worked in tandem with artists to record and disseminate knowledge in the early modern period (1500颅鈥�1800).
In these centuries, the refinement of printed images revolutionized the observational sciences. Increasingly sophisticated woodcuts and engravings superseded hand-drawn images, cruder prints, and strictly verbal descriptions, while also appealing to artists and art lovers. These images could be augmented with hand coloring and were made by professional printmakers as well as by author-illustrators who engraved the plates for their own publications. Illustrated botanical and entomological publications served a variety of purposes for contemporaries鈥攖hey advanced scientific study, inspired religious contemplation, and served as models for artists including still life painters and embroiderers. Coveting Nature also explores the early and significant contributions of female artists and naturalists such as Maria Sibylla Merian (1647鈥�1717) and Anna Ruysch (1666鈥�1754) and their enduring legacy for contemporary artists.
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