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| EXHIBITS |
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| Évora |
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| Member’s Exhibit |
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| John Cody |
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| Poster Session |
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| Isabel Catalão |
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| Sagres |
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| Oceans |
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| Lisbon |
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| Scientific Illustration |
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| Medical Illustration |
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| Guild of Natural Science Illustrators GNSI 2000 Portugal: International Conference & Annual Meeting July 30 - August 07 2000 in Évora, Lisboa and Sagres, Portugal. |
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Introduction
©2000 Silvia Battaglini
In the course of the history, scientific illustration has offered manifold images of the nature world always. Around the middle of the 1500's appeared, in many European countries, the first big (great) work with zoological and botanical subjects, and to outfit of these the authors wanted faithful reproductions of the truth. This developed that bond that sees placed side by side artist and scientist in a tight collaboration, in such context with the unique goal of a precise visual reproduction of the natural world.
The figures that Benedetto Puccinelli commissioned to the painter and lithograph Giuseppe Bertini around the mid 1800's are an ultimate precious example of this bond between "beautiful" and "true", between artist and scientist. Almost 600 watercolour images (reproduced in full size, and in some cases, slightly reduced) show the precision of the drawing, the chromatic ability, the patience of the miniature and the research of the detail; joined to the interest for the nature, they result in an ichonographic delicate apparatus, extremely accurate and of notable scientific interest.
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Last Updated: Jan. 20, 2001.