Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Art of the Butterfly
A Technical Study of Early Modern Lepidochromy
Series: Studies in Early Modernity in The Netherlands;
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Product details:
- Publisher Amsterdam University Press
- Date of Publication 15 November 2025
- ISBN 9789048568833
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages387 pages
- Size 260x210 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 48 Illustrations, black & white; 115 Illustrations, color 700
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Long description:
The Dutch painter and naturalist Otto Marseus van Schrieck became famous for an unusual iconography mixing characteristics of landscape, animal painting, natural history illustration, and still life: the sottobosco paintings. These artworks, which he developed during his voyage to Italy around 1650, represent reptiles, amphibians, and insects in dark forests. To increase the realistic representations of lepidopterans, he pressed the wings of dead specimens onto the paintings to transfer their original colours. This technique of printing butterfly wings, named lepidochromy in this book, was already used in the sixteenth century and has been documented as a means to conserve and classify lepidopterans from the eighteenth through twentieth century.
With a strong focus on the techniques and materials involved in making butterfly imprints, this book introduces readers for the first time to the development, uses, and meanings of lepidochromy in the oeuvre of Otto Marseus van Schrieck at the crossroads of art and natural history.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
PART I | THE LEPIDOCHROMY TECHNIQUE
CHAPTER 1 | SEEING AND MAKING LEPIDOCHROMES
CHAPTER 2 | THE TERMINOLOGIES AND INHERITANCE OF LEPIDOCHROMY
PART II | OTTO MARSEUS VAN SCHRIECK AND THE LEPIDOCHROMY TECHNIQUE IN EARLY MODERN ART THEORIES AND NATURAL HISTORY
CHAPTER 3 | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEPIDOCHROMY IN THE SOTTOBOSCHI AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART THEORIES
CHAPTER 4 | THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEPIDOCHROMY IN THE SOTTOBOSCHI AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NATURAL HISTORY
CONCLUSION
ANNEX I: TRANSCRIPTIONS OF RECIPES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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