Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe

Publication Data

• Title Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
• Contributors Susan Dackerman, Harvard Art Museums, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

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.

Contents

Printmaking and knowledge
Constellations and configurations
Observing nature
Observation / Lorraine Daston
The rhinoceros
Dürer's indexical fantasy: the rhinoceros and printmaking / Susan Dackerman
Theater of nature
Illustrated natural history / Claudia Swan
Measurement
Printed instruments
Georg Hartmann and the development of printed instruments in Nuremberg / Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Mapping
Allegory
Allegories of knowledge / Katharine Park.

Topics

• Prints, European :: 16th century :: Exhibitions
• Prints, Renaissance :: Exhibitions
• Art and science :: Exhibitions
• Knowledge, Sociology of :: Exhibitions
• Europe :: Intellectual life :: 16th century :: Exhibitions
• Europe

Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe. ISBN 9781891771583. Published by Yale University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.