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So fitting! An anatomy lecture room to witness a dissection of Gombrich' Story of art, by Maria Gimeno. Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay & the arts , with @azcoitiamaria ImageImage
Leyster, La Roldana, Sibylla Merian cc #AH1003, #AH3235 & #AH4236 ImageImageImage
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Today at #AH4236 "Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" we paid a visit to @StAndrewsUniLib Special Collections and examined a range of wonderful early modern books 👇

* These photos have been provided by students - thank you very much all for your contributions! Image
Above we see one of the well-known (and fascinating) illustrations featured in Athanasius Kircher's 'Arca Noe in tres libros digesta' (1675) [@StAndrewsUniLib, r17f BS658.K5C75]

Here you have a detail of this image, showing the distribution of creatures inside Noah's Ark 👇 Image
Did you see the pair of rhinoceros? We examined two early representations of this animal, based on Dürer's famous print:

- the illustration in a 1550 edition of Münster's Cosmographiae uniuersalis

- Gessner's Historiae Animalium (I, 1551) [@StAndrewsUniLib, Typ SwZ.B51FG] Image
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First week of my course #AH4236 'Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe' @ArtHistoryStA @univofstandrews

I asked my students to act out a few early modern roles & practices e.g. coming up with a design for a print of a passion flower, featuring the “Passion” symbolism. Image
👆This is the first design they produced, based on an image of the flower that I provided. #AH4236

We discussed period reactions to this type of representation e.g. John Parkinson's account of the passion flower in Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus Terrestris (1629) Image
Their second design 👇 is remarkable , for it resembles another famous early modern image linked to the question of religious symbolism in the Americas: the Cross of Limache, Chile, published in Alonso de Ovalle, Histórica relación del Reyno de Chile (1646). #AH4236 ImageImage
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Mega HILO de #divulgación dedicado al AVE DEL PARAÍSO >

Con enlaces a hilos recientes y todas las imágenes que me han enviado diversas instituciones y personas.

El hilo se irá actualizando a medida que me lleguen más respuestas.

Usaré el hashtag #avesdelparaíso. Image
Hilo 1: Las aves del paraíso de la Expedición #Magallanes #Elcano

Dedicado a la historia de las #avesdelparaíso que en 1522 llegaron a Europa a bordo de la nao Victoria, junto al resto de la expedición que completó la primera circunnavegación del mundo:
Hilo 2: La Adoración de los Magos de #Rubens (@museodelprado) y el ave del paraíso

Dedicado a la representación de #avesdelparaíso en varios cuadros de Rubens y otros artistas de su época:
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Today we spent the last lecture of the @ArtHistoryStA course #AH4236 "Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" discussing a selection of early modern materials from Special Collections @StAndrewsUniLib, including ⬇️
A page of a series of manuscripts on alchemy by Isaac Newton #AH4236 @StAndrewsUniLib Image
A rare edition of Galileo Galilei's Siderus Nuncius (1610) *without* the engravings depicting his observations of the surface of the moon. See these two images for comparison (the St Andrews edition on the left, the @SILibraries edition on the right) #AH4236 @StAndrewsUniLib ImageImage
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A few photos from the exhibition "Disentangle. Science in a Gendered World", currently at @LifeSpaceDundee, which we visited during our field trip for the PG module #AH5163 'Representation and the Body' @ArtHistoryStA with co-tutors Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke15 & Jeremy Howard ImageImage
Botanical teaching chart of Dodder - Cuscuta glomerata (aka Wizard's Net or Devil's Guts), 1880s-90s - selected by Ker Wallwork @LifeSpaceDundee Image
Mantis - multiple species. Selected by Kaya Fraser @LifeSpaceDundee Image
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This week at #AH4236 “Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe” we had the wonderful opportunity to examine some early modern materials from the @StAndrewsUniLib Special Collections ⬇️
Coloured woodcut of the (Dürer) rhinoceros in volume 1 of Conrad Gessner’ Historiae Animalium. #AH4236 Image
Images of the armadillo and the plant and fruit of pepper. in Nicolás Monardes, Simplicium medicamentorum ex nouo orbe delatorum (1579), edited and translated by Carolus Clusius #AH4236 ImageImage
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