Art and Science in the Spanish Baroque. Natural History, Collecting and Visual Culture
'Art and Science in the Spanish Baroque' explores the intersections between two defining chapters in early modern history: the development of modern science and the unfolding of Baroque culture.
This book examines three domains of seventeenth-century Spanish science and art: collecting, natural history and the visual arts, painting in particular. Its topics include the role of images in the creation and circulation of knowledge; the significance of cabinets of curiosities and art collections; still-life and vanitas paintings and their relationship with the world of learning; and the symbolic and religious interpretation of Asian and American nature.
The author focuses on case studies such as the visual representation of the bird of paradise and the passion flower, the expedition of Francisco Hernández to New Spain, the collection of wonders of the enigmatic Juan de Espina, the naturalist work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, and the Baroque meditation on the vanity of the world and its expression in paintings by artists such as Antonio de Pereda and Juan de Valdés Leal.
Bringing together the history of science and the history of art, this revised and updated edition of 'Art and Science in Spanish Baroque' offers new perspectives on one of the most remarkable and fascinating periods in history.
This book examines three domains of seventeenth-century Spanish science and art: collecting, natural history and the visual arts, painting in particular. Its topics include the role of images in the creation and circulation of knowledge; the significance of cabinets of curiosities and art collections; still-life and vanitas paintings and their relationship with the world of learning; and the symbolic and religious interpretation of Asian and American nature.
The author focuses on case studies such as the visual representation of the bird of paradise and the passion flower, the expedition of Francisco Hernández to New Spain, the collection of wonders of the enigmatic Juan de Espina, the naturalist work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, and the Baroque meditation on the vanity of the world and its expression in paintings by artists such as Antonio de Pereda and Juan de Valdés Leal.
Bringing together the history of science and the history of art, this revised and updated edition of 'Art and Science in Spanish Baroque' offers new perspectives on one of the most remarkable and fascinating periods in history.