Insect artifice : nature and art in the Dutch Revolt /
This 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 havoc on the region's creative...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Antwerp in metamorphosis
- Part I. The hammer and the nail. Hoefnagel's shoes ; The good herb patience ; The genius of place ; Monuments of friendship
- Part II. Nature's unmasterable elements. Animal ingenuity ; Fossil forms ; The insect as artifex
- Epilogue. The font of everything.