Chapter The Art of Glassmaking and the Nature of Stones. The Role of Imitation in Anselm De Boodt's Classification of Stones

• Auteur principal: Dupré, Sven (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Augart, Isabella (Éditeur intellectuel), Saß, Maurice (Éditeur intellectuel), Wenderholm, Iris (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018
• Collection: Naturbilder / Images of Nature 8
• Sujets: The arts: general issues; History of art / art & design styles; Art; Stone; Artistic material; Nature imitation
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

What is a stone? in Gemmarum et lapidum historia (The History of Gems and Stones), pub-lished in 1609, and arguably the most important work on stones of the seventeenth cen-tury, the flemish physician anselm de Boodt listed precious stone brought to europe from asia and the new World, illustrated wi...