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Item Number: 113226
Title: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Author: Dackerman, Susan (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300171075
Description: Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 2011. 32cm., pbk., 440pp., 297 illus.. most in color. Exhibition catalogue. Publisher's summary : 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.
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