Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteen

This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern reading of th

A concise illustrated history of one of art's most important and elusive elements Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instru