@article{ART002097492},
author={Sohee Kim},
title={The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2011},
volume={4},
number={1},
pages={99-137},
doi={10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sohee Kim
TI - The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2011
VL - 4
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 99
EP - 137
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This study investigates the interaction between emblematics and natural history, focusing on sixteenth-century botanical emblem books, in which plants can be seen as means of meditation. In the second half of the sixteenth century, the two genres of emblematics and natural history became so closely related that the empirical knowledge of natural history provided the reader a key for uncovering the disguised meaning of emblems. In particular, botanical emblem books, which appeared in the mid sixteenth century, demonstrate the combination of close scientific observations of plants and devotional approach to nature as God's divine creation. This didactic and meditational use of botanical emblems is most evident in three botanical emblem books by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601), Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534-98), and Thomas Palmer (1540-1626). In these books, Hoefnagel, Camerarius and Palmer demonstrated their emblematic way of looking at plants as an aid to meditation as well as their botanical knowledge in detail and accuracy, encouraging the audience to appreciate fully both the aesthetic beauty and the symbolic and allegoric meaning represented by each plant. Thus, these botanical emblem books represent their distinctive worldview of the late sixteenth century, with its combination of art, science, and emblematics.
KW - Botanical emblem books;Emblematics;Natural History;Joris Hoefnagel;Joachim Camerarius the Younger;Thomas Palmer
DO - 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
ER -
Sohee Kim. (2011). The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 4(1), 99-137.
Sohee Kim. 2011, "The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.4, no.1 pp.99-137. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
Sohee Kim "The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4.1 pp.99-137 (2011) : 99.
Sohee Kim. The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses. 2011; 4(1), 99-137. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
Sohee Kim. "The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4, no.1 (2011) : 99-137.doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
Sohee Kim. The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 4(1), 99-137. doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
Sohee Kim. The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2011; 4(1) 99-137. doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
Sohee Kim. The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses. 2011; 4(1), 99-137. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
Sohee Kim. "The Combination of Emblematics and Natural History: Botanical Emblem Books for Meditational Uses" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4, no.1 (2011) : 99-137.doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.99
