Insects and Colors Between Art and Natural History
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this volume examine the creative methods and strategies that were developed to record...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill bV
[2025]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Emergence of natural history ;
Volume 7. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009863839606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- V.E. Mandrij and Giulia Simonini
- Insect Color in Joris Hoefnagel’s Ignis
- Kimberly Schenck and Stacey Sell
- “More True to Nature than Paintings”: Lepidochromy and the Color of Butterflies
- V.E. Mandrij
- The Biology of Color in Insects
- Kay Etheridge
- Painting by Numbers and Insect Illustrations in the Eighteenth Century: Jacob Christian Schäffer and Stephan Loibel
- Giulia Simonini
- The Colors of Lepidopterans: Ignaz Schiffermüller’s Caterpillar Watercolors and Their Iconographic Impact
- Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel and Harald Bruckner
- Color, Taxonomy, and Exotic Insect Specimens
- Beth Fowkes Tobin
- Index.
