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'L’Histoire de la nature des oyseaux' von Pierre Belon

Naturhistorische Bild- und Sammlungspraxis der Frühen Neuzeit
  • Christine Kleiter
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Ars et Scientia
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Volume 30 | Ars et Scientia

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Pierre Belon’s treatise on birds, published in Paris in 1555, is regarded as a pioneering early work of ornithology. Christine Kleiter analyzes this work in its exceptional position as one of the first printed and illustrated natural history treatises. She shows how the text and images pursue the claim to systematically document and catalog knowledge. In doing so, she compares Belon’s work with that of other naturalists, such as Conrad Gessner and Ulisse Aldrovandi. It becomes clear that Belon drew on a variety of sources - from living and dead animals to specimens and drawings - and depicted some animals that had never been seen or described before in Europe. This volume thus offers a completely new insight into the research practices of the early modern period.

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Christine Kleiter, postdoctoral assistant at the Department of Art History, Early Modern Art Section, University of Basel. In 2024 she was a Fritz Thyssen Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Study Centre in Venice. In 2023, she completed her doctorate in art history at Georg August University of Göttingen. During her doctorate, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Art History in Florence - Max Planck Institute. Her research was funded in part by the Cusanuswerk.

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    Inhalt

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    Dank

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    Einleitung

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    1 L’Histoire de la nature des oyseaux von Pierre Belon

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    2 Belons Holzschnitte als epistemische Bilder

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    3 Der Vogel als Studienobjekt: Bild- und Präparationspraxis

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    4 Was vom Vogel blieb: (Vogel-)Präparate in den Sammlungen Frankreichs und Italiens im 16. Jahrhundert

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    5 Vogel-Taxonomie in Farbe – zum händischen Farbauftrag in Belons Vogelbuch

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    Conclusio

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    Appendices

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    Sigelnachweis

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    Literaturverzeichnis

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    Bildnachweis

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eBook published on:
December 15, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783689240509
Hardcover published on:
December 15, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783689242169
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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416
Coloured Illustrations:
153
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783689240509
eBook ISBN: 9783689240509
Hardcover ISBN: 9783689242169
Keywords for this book
art; 16th century; Early Modern Period; France; book illumination; woodcut; Benoit Prevoist; ornithology; natural science; taxidermy; history of science
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scholars in Art History, Cultural Studies, History of Science, History
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