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Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse and layering are often linked to the age of photography, but they were already being used half a millennium ago for the purposes of identification and study. This is why Renaissance drawings of plants and animals are immediately recognizable to the modern viewer. Discussing natural history images made throughout Europe during the sixteenth century, Eye for Detail traces the early history of image manipulation techniques.

Florike Egmond shows how the roles and formats of images in nature study changed dramatically during this period, as high-definition naturalistic representation became the rule, and large image collections of plants and animals were created for identification and illustration. She investigates what the use of visual techniques like magnification can tell us about how early modern Europeans studied and ordered living nature, and focuses on how attention to visual detail reveals the overriding question that continued to occupy the minds of naturalists from antiquity well into the modern age: the secret of how life originates.

Featuring many striking colour illustrations that have never been published before, this beautiful volume is an arresting guide to the large Continental collections of naturalia drawings and an absorbing study of natural history art of the sixteenth century. (http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781780236407#)

Florike Egmond is a cultural historian specializing in natural history. She lives in Rome and is affiliated to the University of Leiden. Her recent books include The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550–1610 (2010) and The Whale Book: Whales and Other Marine Animals as Described by Adriaen Coenen in 1585 (Reaktion, 2003).

Introduction

Part I
Nature Captured
1 Green Fashion: Painted Naturalia in Collections
2 Organizing Nature: Painted Albums as Collections
3 In and Out of Order

Part II
Untrue to Life
4 Persuasive High Definition
5 Rendering for Recognition
6 Zoom: Relevant Detail in the Visual Study of Nature

Part III
Micro before the Microscope
7 Minute Observation
8 Visual Dissection

Conclusion

Biographical Notes
Abbreviations and Appendix
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Index
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