Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Edited by Susan Dackerman; With essays by Susan Dackerman, Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, and Claudia Swan
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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 Dürer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius's 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. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
Distributed for Harvard Art Museums
Exhibition Schedule:
Harvard Art Museums
(09/06/11-12/10/11)
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
(01/17/12-04/08/12)
Susan Dackerman is Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Harvard Art Museums.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Harvard Art Museums
(09/06/11-12/10/11)
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
(01/17/12-04/08/12)
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
Publishing Partner: Distributed for Harvard Art Museums
297 color illus.
