Susan Dackerman
Susan Dackerman is John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and was previously the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.
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The Rhinoceros
Susan Dackerman
Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
~Although Albrecht Dürer never saw a rhinoceros, his 1515 woodcut was the authoritative representation of the animal for centuries. Based on drawn and written accounts sent from Lisbon, where a rhinoceros had been shipped from India as a gift to the King of Portugal, Dürer’s woodcut was a revelation because a rhinoceros had not been...
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Susan Dackerman
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.163-183
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.010
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Chapter subject tags:Prints--TechniqueEurope--Intellectual life--16th centuryPrints, European--16th centuryPrints, RenaissanceArt and natural history--Europe--History--16th centuryDürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Constellations and Configurations
Susan Dackerman
Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
~In 1515 Albrecht Dürer designed the first printed representations of the constellations of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres. Hardly an isolated artistic project, these woodcuts emerged from an environment of rigorous investigation of the heavens in Dürer’s native Nuremberg. Broadsheets describing the function of astronomical...
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Susan Dackerman
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.79-123
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.008
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Chapter subject tags:Art and science--Europe--History--16th centuryEurope--Intellectual life--16th centuryPrints, RenaissancePrints, European--16th centuryMedicine and art--Europe--History--16th centuryDürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528Pictorial maps, RenaissanceAstrology in art--Europe--History--16th century
Printmaking and Knowledge
Susan Dackerman
Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
~In the early modern period, knowledge of the natural world was organized around such categories as natural philosophy, which examined the physical universe as it was perceptible to the senses, seeking the causes of natural phenomena; natural history, which described the particular properties of objects in the natural world, and because it included the study of...
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Susan Dackerman
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.37-77
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.007
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16361
Chapter subject tags:Europe--Intellectual life--16th centuryPrints, RenaissancePrints, European--16th centuryArt and science--Europe--History--16th centuryArt and natural history--Europe--History--16th centuryAnatomy, Artistic--RenaissanceMedicine and art--Europe--History--16th century
Introduction: Prints as Instruments
Susan Dackerman
Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe examines the participation of celebrated artists in the scientific inquiries of the sixteenth century. By investigating the close working relationships...
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Susan Dackerman
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.19-35
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.006
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16360
Chapter subject tags:Prints--TechniquePrints, RenaissancePrints, European--16th centuryEurope--Intellectual life--16th centuryArt and science--Europe--History--16th centuryArt and science--Europe--HistoryAnatomy, Artistic--Renaissance
Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
BOOKPrints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Susan Dackerman (Editor)
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097
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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.

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement.

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Author
Susan Dackerman (Editor)
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Print publication date September 2011 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9780300171075
EISBN 9780300238365
Copyright© 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Illustrations 271 Illus.
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