Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt

ISBN-13: 9780691177151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

Marisa Anne Bass

Opis

How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent ageThis pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dutch Revolt wreaked h