Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe write by Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011. Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012.
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe write by Susan Dackerman. This book was released on 2011. Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Durer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and, Hendrick Goltzius' depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical 'flap' prints; and, paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement"--Publisher's description.
Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation write by Stephanie A. Leitch. This book was released on 2024-04-04. Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos, while also printing practical manuals that translated principles of spherical astronomy into useful data for weather watchers, farmers, and astrologers. Physiognomy, a genre related to cosmography, taught observers how to scrutinize profiles in order to sum up peoples' characters. Neither Albrecht Dürer nor Leonardo escaped the tenacious grasp of such widely circulating manuals called practica. Few have heard of these genres today, but the kinship of their pictorial programs suggests that printers shaped these texts for readers who privileged knowledge retrieval. Cultivated by images to become visual learners, these readers were then taught to hone their skills as observers. This book unpacks these and other visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world.
Dürer’s Knots
Dürer’s Knots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dürer’s Knots write by Susan Dackerman. This book was released on 2024-09-10. Dürer’s Knots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The first comprehensive study of Duerer's treatment of Islamic themes in his prints"--
Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700
Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 write by Christopher D. Fletcher. This book was released on 2023-12-28. Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400‒1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical structure of their book, through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we also consider selected manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century codices. Throughout Customised Books the emphasis falls on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to their manuscripts and books. Contributors: B. Boler Hunter, T. Cummins, A. Dlabačova, K.A.E. Enenkel, C.D. Fletcher, P.F. Gehl, P. Germano Leal, J. Kiliańczyk-Zięba, J. Koguciuk, A. van Leerdam, S. Leitch, S. McKeown, W.S. Melion, K. Michael, S. Midanik, B. Purkaple, J. Rosenholtz-Witt, B.L. Rothstein, M.R. Wade, and G. Warnar.
