TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griebeler,Andrew
TI  - Botanical icons: critical practices of illustration in the premodern Mediterranean 
SN  - 9780226826790
AV  - QK98.16.M43 G75 2024
U1  - 581.022/2 23/eng/20230412
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Dioscorides Pedanius,
KW  - Botanical illustration
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book traces the history of botanical illustration in the premodern Mediterranean from antiquity to the early modern period. By examining Greek, Latin, and Arabic botanical inquiry in this early era, Andrew Griebeler shows how diverse and sophisticated modes of plant depiction emerged and ultimately gave rise to many practices now recognized as central to modern botanical illustration. The material is remarkable and varied, and the author draws on a vast range of manuscript material across Europe and the Mediterranean, over a long span of time. Lavishly illustrated, Botanical Icons assembles ample evidence for a dynamic and critical tradition of botanical inquiry and nature observation in the late antique and medieval Eastern Mediterranean. The author reveals how many of the critical practices characteristic of modern botanical illustrations and manuscript culture actually appear in premodern manuscripts. Consequently, he demonstrates that the distinctions between pre- and early modern botanical illustration center more on the advent of print, and the narrowing of the range of accepted forms of illustration, than on the novel invention of critical and observational practices exclusive to modernity. Griebeler's emphasis on continuity, intercultural collaboration, and the gradual transformation of Mediterranean traditions of critical botanical illustration persuasively counters previously prevalent narratives of rupture and Western European exceptionalism in the histories of art and sciences"--
ER  -