Table of Contents
“Undivided Territory: ‘Art’ and ‘Science’ in the Early Modern
Netherlands”, Eric Jorink & Bart Ramakers
“The Historiography of Perspective and Reflexy-Const in
Netherlandish Art”, Sven Dupré
“The Camel’s Head: Representing Unseen Animals in Sixteenth-Century
Europe”, Dániel Margócsy
“Jan Brueghel’s Allegory of Air (1621) from a Natural Historical
Perspective”, Marrigje Rikken & Paul J. Smith
“Painted Poison: Venomous Beasts, Herbs, Gems, and Baroque Colour
Theory”, Karin Leonhard
“Beyond the Lines of Apelles: Johannes Swammerdam, Dutch Scientific
Culture and the Representation of Insect Anatomy”, Eric Jorink
“Regulating the Arts: Willem Goeree versus Samuel van Hoogstraten”,
Gijsbert M. van de Roemer
“The Light of Nature and the Allegorisation of Science on Dutch
Frontispieces around 1700”, Rienk Vermij
“From Hieroglyphs to Universal Characters: Pictography in the Early
Modern Netherlands”, Thijs Weststeijn
“Art, Science and Religion in Romeyn de Hooghe’s Hieroglyphica”,
Joke Spaans
“‘Will the Eye be the Sole Judge?’: ‘Science’ and ‘Art’ in the
Optical Inquiries of Lambert ten Kate and Hendrik van Limborch
around 1710”, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
“Staging Nature: Observation, Imagination and Experience in E.M.
Post’s Het land, in brieven (1788)”, Bart Ramakers
"This collection of articles, with each essay far more richly
developed and nuanced than can be suggested here, is recommended
for anyone interested in the relation between art and science and,
more generally, intellectual history during Holland’s Golden Age
and the following century."
Dan Ewing, Barry University in HNA Review of Books
" ‘Art and science’ has been a growing field of research interest
in recent years, but it is often hard, as Ludmilla Jordanova has
pointed out time and again, to get the ‘and’ – to join scholarship
in the history of art and the history of science – right (e.g.
‘And?’, British Journal for the History of Science 35 (2002)
341-345). This volume of collected essays does, and it is so
effectively because instead of treating ‘art’ and ‘science’ as
separate spheres with an intersection and focusing simply on that
intersection, it starts with a premise that the categories of ‘art’
and ‘science’ should not be separated and that in fact both
activities inhabit the same, much wider territory of culture. Such
a strategy is entirely justified, given that since classical times,
art and nature were polar but mutually dependent terms in
pre-modern Europe."
...
"In sum, this volume presents exemplary and innovative research in
‘art and science’ and demonstrates the fertility of this region as
the centre of scientific, artistic and printing activities in the
period. It would be interesting to develop further comparative
angles, for example in Britain, where so many of the artists had
come from the Netherlands. The editors have done a fine job in not
only setting exemplary scholarly standards but also in pointing to
potentially fruitful research ahead."
Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge in BMGN - Low
Countries Historical Review
"Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands is an exquisite
publication, a new installment of the prestigious Netherlands
Yearbook for History of Art, a journal published in the form of an
annual book series. Appropriately for an art history publication,
it is lavishly illustrated, with high quality black and white
images.
...
The material in this book is no exception, and this magnificent
edition rivals with the best collections in art history and history
of science. Irrespective of its exceptional scholarly qualities, it
can even be used as a coffee-table book!"
Koen Vermeir, CNRS, Paris in Centaurus
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