Eye for Detail

Informationen zum Autor Florike Egmond is a cultural historian specializing in 16th-century natural history. She works at the Dutch National Archive in The Hague, The Netherlands. Klappentext Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used half a millennium ago. Exploring the world of natural history drawings from the Renaissance, 'Eye for Detail' shows how the function of identification led to image manipulation techniques that will look uncannily familiar to the modern viewer. Egmond shows how the format of images in nature studies changed dramatically during the Renaissance period, as high-definition naturalistic representation became the rule during a robust output of plant and animal drawings. She examines what visual techniques like magnification can tell us about how early modern Europeans studied and ordered living nature, and she focuses on how attention to visual detail was motivated by an overriding question: the secret of the origins of life. Beautifully and precisely illustrated throughout, this volume serves as an arresting guide to the massive European collections of nature drawings and an absorbing study of natural history art of the sixteenth century. Zusammenfassung Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used half a millennium ago. Exploring the world of natural history drawings from the Renaissance, Eye for Detail

Product details

• Authors: Florike Egmond, Egmond Florike
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2017
• EAN: 9781780236407
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-640-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 259 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, ART / History / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Drawing & drawings, Nature in art, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Drawing and drawings