Echoes of Aldrovandi: notes on an illustrated album from the Natural History Museum in London

Jose Ramon Marcaida Lopez

Echoes of Aldrovandi: notes on an illustrated album from the Natural History Museum in London

School of Art History

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This work focuses on an early modern album of bird illustrations currently held at the Natural History Museum in London: Raccolta di Uccelli fatta da Giovanni da Udine Scolare di Raffaelle Sanzio da Urbino (88 f B). Particular attention is paid to the case of two colour illustrations of the bird of paradise, modelled after two printed images published by Ulisse Aldrovandi in his Ornithologiae (1599). The aim is to discuss the status of this type of albums –beautifully-illustrated and often-anonymous compilations of naturalist imagery– as source-materials for the scholar of early modern culture. What are the main challenges of studying such objects and their content? What do these sources reveal about the interactions between naturalists, image-makers and collectors in the early modern period? What can we learn from them in relation to processes like the circulation of images, the production of copies and the accumulation and display of natural knowledge?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ulisse Aldrovandi. Libri e immagini di storia naturale nella prima età moderna
Editors	Giuseppe Olmi, Fulvio Simoni
Place of Publication	Bolonia
Publisher	Bononia University Press
Pages	23-27
ISBN (Print)	9788869232695
Publication status	Published - 6 Feb 2018
Event	Ulisse Aldrovandi. Books and images of natural history in the early modern age - Museum of Palazzo Poggi, Hall of Ulysses of the Academy of Sciences, Bologna, Italy Duration: 17 Sept 2015 → 18 Sept 2015 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjNp8vmpc3ZAhXqAsAKHYssCOcQFggsMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disci.unibo.it%2Fit%2Feventi%2Fulisse-aldrovandi.-libri-e-immagini-di-storia-naturale-nella-prima-eta-moderna&usg=AOvVaw126RACr3zmJko7SNk3Hm30

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Conference	Ulisse Aldrovandi. Books and images of natural history in the early modern age
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	17/09/15 → 18/09/15
Internet address	https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjNp8vmpc3ZAhXqAsAKHYssCOcQFggsMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disci.unibo.it%2Fit%2Feventi%2Fulisse-aldrovandi.-libri-e-immagini-di-storia-naturale-nella-prima-eta-moderna&usg=AOvVaw126RACr3zmJko7SNk3Hm30

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Marcaida Lopez, JR 2018, Echoes of Aldrovandi: notes on an illustrated album from the Natural History Museum in London. in G Olmi & F Simoni (eds), Ulisse Aldrovandi. Libri e immagini di storia naturale nella prima età moderna. Bononia University Press, Bolonia, pp. 23-27, Ulisse Aldrovandi. Books and images of natural history in the early modern age, Bologna, Italy, 17/09/15.

Echoes of Aldrovandi: notes on an illustrated album from the Natural History Museum in London. / Marcaida Lopez, Jose Ramon.
Ulisse Aldrovandi. Libri e immagini di storia naturale nella prima età moderna. ed. / Giuseppe Olmi; Fulvio Simoni. Bolonia: Bononia University Press, 2018. p. 23-27.

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