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Insect Artifice - Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt (Hardcover)
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Insect Artifice - Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt (Hardcover)
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How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his
turbulent age 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 and intellectual
community, compelling its members to seek solace in intimate
exchanges of art and knowledge. At its center is a neglected
treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of
Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant,
miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman who turned to the study of
nature in this era of political and spiritual upheaval. Presented
here for the first time are more than eighty pages in color
facsimile of Hoefnagel's encyclopedic masterwork, which showcase
both the splendor and eccentricity of its meticulously painted
animals, insects, and botanical specimens. Marisa Anne Bass unfolds
the circumstances that drove the creation of the Four Elements by
delving into Hoefnagel's writings and larger oeuvre, the works of
his friends, and the rich world of classical learning and empirical
inquiry in which he participated. Bass reveals how Hoefnagel and
his colleagues engaged with natural philosophy as a means to
reflect on their experiences of war and exile, and found refuge
from the threats of iconoclasm and inquisition in the manuscript
medium itself. This is a book about how destruction and violence
can lead to cultural renewal, and about the transformation of
Netherlandish identity on the eve of the Dutch Golden Age.
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