HSC302H5 Chapter 9: History of Illustration
25 Feb 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
• Durer
o Published “4 books on Human Proportion”
o To quantify and analyze various human forms to create a framework for
the human body
o Meticulous pieces of plant and animal life
▪ “hare” and “the large piece of turf”
• Shows color, texture, attention to detail
▪ “Rhinoceros”
• Composed based on someone else’s sketch and description
• Never saw one
• Image includes a supplementary horn on shoulder
• Common theme in renaissance – reliance on received authority switched to
insistence on evidence of sense
• Botany – medical study not disciple until 16th century
• “The garden of health”
o Illustrations not on direct observation, but replication
• “Living Portraits of Plants”
o Weiditz illustrated
o Brunfels wrote text
o Had something new, drawn from life
o Showed individual species
o Radical innovation
• Fuchts and Meyers
o Built off of Weiditz and Brunfels
o “Notable Commentaries of History of Plants”
o Attempt to organize information
• “On fabric of Human Body”
o Published by Vesalius
o Insistence of direct observation
o Before, studies from Galen based on dissections of pigs, apes, dogs
o Vesalius did studies from dissection of humans
• “Histories of Animals”
o By Gessner
o All known information about animals from biblical, classical, and medieval
sources
• Natural history started to be less associated with medicine and more with an
“encyclopedic” impulse
• A parallel passion for collection species arose
• Collected plants by pressing and preserving them, or in newly established
botanical gardens
• Cabinets of curiosity emerged – collected natural specimens and artifacts
Document Summary
Durer, published 4 books on human proportion , to quantify and analyze various human forms to create a framework for the human body, meticulous pieces of plant and animal life. Hare and the large piece of turf : shows color, texture, attention to detail. Rhinoceros : composed based on someone else"s sketch and description, never saw one. Image includes a supplementary horn on shoulder: common theme in renaissance reliance on received authority switched to insistence on evidence of sense, botany medical study not disciple until 16th century. Insistence of direct observation: published by vesalius, before, studies from galen based on dissections of pigs, apes, dogs, vesalius did studies from dissection of humans. Histories of animals : by gessner, all known information about animals from biblical, classical, and medieval sources, natural history started to be less associated with medicine and more with an.
