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PublisherHirmer Verlag Gmbh
ISBN-103777428981
ISBN-139783777428987
eBay Product ID (ePID)239675415
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMedusa's Menagerie : Otto Marseus Van Schrieck and the Scholars
Publication Year2018
SubjectHistory / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, European
TypeTextbook
AuthorStaatliches Museum Schwerin
Subject AreaArt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight49.7 Oz
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width9.5 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
ReviewsSplendid . . . . [Otto Van Schrieck's] snake pictures depict a wondrous world of decay and slime, rife with mushrooms, beetles, and chameleons interacting with the liveliness of a history painting--a far from peaceable kingdom in nature's underworld. . . . Van Schrieck created innovative long perspectives with light and shade and was precociously skilled at depicting scaly snakeskin, shiny beetle shells, oleaginous toad tongues and decay in all its glory., It is part of the charm of these paintings that they are as much works of Marseus's imagination as of scientific observation. This is what is so beguiling about his art--one can see in it changing modes of thought at work, a gradual groping toward a world of scientific accuracy, even as the arrangement of the lush, unearthly plants and the animals, with their wonderful, quizzical expressiveness, seems to spring from the mind of the painter, presented for maximum visual appeal and delight.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal759.9492
Table Of ContentForeword Contemporary Sources on Otto Mareus Gero Seelig Otto MArseus van Schrieck: Reflections of Art, Nature, and Sicence The Power of Art- Peter Paul Rubens The Artist's Visage- Arnold Houbraken Pleasant Frisson- Matthias Withoos Animals in Still Lifes from the 1620s Evert Marseus- Two Paintings by the Brother Early Paintings by Otto Marseus Flower Still Lifes from Otto Marseus Three Snakes with Tulip- Otto Marseus The Second Skin- Johan Teyler Otto Marseus's Snakes Rachel Ruysch Reworks a Composition by Otto Marseus Eric Jorink Between Rome and Amsterdam: The Artistic and Scientific Networks of Otto Marseus van Schrieck Otto Marseus and Florence Johannes Swammerdam (1637-80) The Initial Revelation- Swammerdam's Bible of Nature Johannes Goedaert- The Book of Metamorphosis Balthasar de Monconys (1611-65) Johannes Hudde (1628-1704) Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) Jacob de Wilde Welcomes the Tsar The Realm of Books Bert van de Roemer Art Opens the Book of Nature: Skillfulness and Knowledge in Dutch Curiosity Cabinets around 1700 The Reality of Animals- Jan van Kessel The Theatre of Natural Marvels- Levinus Vincent Agnes Block (1629-1704) The Msitress of the Garden- Jan Weenix The Fruits of Labour- Peeter Gijsels Leiden University and Its Botanical Garden Otto Marseus as a Draughtsman Drawings Attributed to Otto Marseus The Thesaurus of Albertus Seba Frogs to Fishes Karin Leonhard Psychomachia: The Forest Floor Still Life in the Agon of the Forces Forest Floor Still Lifes with Toadstools from Otto Marseus Secrets of Forest Life- Otto Marseus Exotic Appearance- Elias van den Broeck The Largest Thistle- Otto Marseus The Thistle Motif in Marseus's Contemporaries Late Plant Pictures by Otto Marseus Appendix Bibliography List of Works Exhibited Index Photo Credits Imprint
SynopsisThe precision in the works of Otto Marseus van Schriek--the inventor of the sottobosco still life--continue to fascinate viewers to this day. Always directing the viewer's gaze towards reality, often with gruesome detail, this seventeenth-century Amsterdam painter's works show a paradigm shift from book-based scholarship to empirical science. Animal and plant studies served as preparation for his paintings, which in fact went on to provide the illustrations to many scientific works in his time. This porous relationship between art and science fueled van Schriek's friendships with scholars such as Johannes Swammerdam and Cassiano dal Pozzo, and inspired his membership in a broader international republic of scholars. Titled after one of van Schriek's most famous paintings, Medusa's Menagerie situates the artist for the first time within the context of his scholarly contemporaries, revealing an unknown side of the Golden Century of Netherlandish painting, and illuminating how scientific advances influenced the region's artistic fascination with the dark, the hidden, and the uncanny.
LC Classification NumberND653
