Author: Conrad GessnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Fantasie; Gestaltungstechnik; Holzschnitt; Motiv; Tier.
Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts
Author: Conrad GessnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Fantasie; Gestaltungstechnik; Holzschnitt; Motiv; Tier.
Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts
Author: Konrad GesnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780844601090
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
Author: François-Marc GagnonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773587233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world - flora, fauna, and aboriginal. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675. Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, originally written in classical French, has been put in modern French by Réal Ouellet and translated into English by Nancy Senior. The Natural History presents a pre-Linnaean botany and pre-Darwinian account of living things, including hundreds of species of plants and vivid descriptions of wildlife. It is thoroughly annotated, focusing on the contemporary identification of species, as the result of a pan-Canadian collaboration of experts in fields from linguistics to biology and botany. The Codex Canadensis, currently in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reproduced in full and provides both a fascinating visual account of wildlife as Nicolas saw it and a rare example of early Canadian art. Gagnon's introduction profiles Louis Nicolas and analyses connections between his work and European examples of natural illustration from the period. The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.
Gesner's Curious and Fantastic Beasts
Author: Konrad GesnerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486995771
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A rich archive of woodcuts of real and imaginative beasts by some of the finest artists of their eras, compiled by a noted man of the Renaissance. Features 308 black-and-white images of mammals, insects, birds, and sea life as well as stunningly conceived and masterfully executed images of fanciful beasts. A fertile source of inspiration.
Beasts & Animals in Decorative Woodcuts of the Renaissance
Author: Conrad GessnerCurious Woodcuts of Fancifull and Real Beasts
Author: Konrad GesnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780486227016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The Skulking Way of War
Author: Patrick M. MalonePublisher: Madison Books
ISBN: 1461662842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, surprise, and mobility.
The New Well-tempered Sentence
Author: Karen Elizabeth GordonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618382019
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.
On Monsters
Author: Stephen T. AsmaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199798095
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."--The New Yorker
Animals and Early Modern Identity
Author: PiaF. CuneoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351576437
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry impoverished themselves spending money on them. Humanists exercised their scholarship writing about them. Pastors saved souls delivering sermons on them. Nobles forged alliances competing with them. Foreigners and indigenes negotiated with one another through trading them. The nexus between animal-human relationships and early modern identity is illuminated in this volume by the latest research of international scholars working on the history of art, literature, and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany, France, England, Spain, and South Africa. Collectively, these essays investigate how animals - horses, dogs, pigs, hogs, fish, cattle, sheep, birds, rhinoceroses, even sea-monsters and other creatures - served people in Europe, England, the Americas, and Africa to defend, contest or transcend the boundaries of early modern identities. Developments in the methodologies employed by scholars to interrogate the past have opened up an intellectual and discursive space for - and a concomitant recognition of - the study of animals as a topic that significantly elucidates past and present histories. Relevant to a considerable array of disciplines, the study of animals also provides a means to surmount traditional disciplinary boundaries through processes of dynamic interchange and cross-fertilization.