Eye for detail: images of plants and animals in art and science, 1500-1630.
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used half a millennium ago. Exploring the world of natural history drawings from..... More