Natural history illustrations
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The 49th plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur of 1904, showing various sea anemones classified as Actiniae.
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Since the Renaissance, the use of illustrations was frequently seen in works of natural history.
Conrad Gessner's Historiae animalium and Ulisse Aldrovandi's Storia Naturale were the two earliest examples of illustrated natural history books. As Arianne Faber Kolb notes in Jan Brueghel the Elder: The Entry of the Animals Into Noah's Ark:
- "Gesner employed the artists Hans Asper, Jean Thomas, and Lucas Schan, and Aldrovandi worked together with Cristoforo Coriolano, who made prints after drawings by Lorenzo Bernini, Cornelius Swint, and Jacopo Ligozzi. Gesner and Aldrovandi did not always rely on the information presented by the ancients, but tested it when possible by performing their own examinations of ... they sometimes borrowed fish and bird illustrations from Guillaume Rondelet and Pierre Belon."
Perhaps the most famous historical natural history illustration, Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515), was featured in several natural history books, most famously in Gesner's Historiae animalium.
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Examples
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16th century
- Historiae animalium (Gesner) (1551-58)
- Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515) was featured in several natural history books, most famously in Gesner's Historiae animalium.
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18th century
- August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof [1] (1705-59)
- Jacob Theodor Klein , Summa dubiorum , 1743.[2]
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19th century
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See also
- Animal painting
- Botanical illustration
- Scientific illustration
- Natural history
- Zoology
- Zoological illustrations[3]
- Wildlife art
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