Medusa's Menagerie : Otto Marseus van Schriek and the scholars : [exhibition, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, 07 July - 15 Oktober 2017 / Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, 5 November 2017 - 11 March 2018] / Gero Seelig ; with contributions from Erik Jorink, Bert van de Roemer, Karin Leonhard

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Editeur / Publisher : Munich : HIRMER , 2017

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 3-7774-2898-1

ISBN : 978-3-7774-2898-7

ISBN : 978-3-7774-2898-7

EAN : 9783777428987

Van Schrieck -- Otto Marseus -- 1619?-1678

Cabinets d'amateurs -- Pays-Bas -- 17e siècle

Nature morte -- Pays-Bas -- 17e siècle

Classification Dewey : 700-9492

Seelig, Gero (1960-....) (Editeur scientifique / editor)

Staatliches Museum (Schwerin, Allemagne) (Collectivité éditrice / Issuing body )

Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede, Pays-Bas) (Collectivité éditrice / Issuing body )

Résumé / Abstract : The precise details in the works of Otto Marseus van Schrieck, the inventor of the sottobosco still life, fascinate viewers to this day. For the first time the artist is now being shown within the context of his contemporaries, revealing an unknown side of the Golden Century of Netherlandish painting and the beauty of still life, as well as the fascination of the dark, the hidden and the uncanny. The works of the Amsterdam painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck questions the relationship between art and science during the seventeenth century. The painter was acquainted with important scholars in many countries, including Johannes Swammerdam and Cassiano dal Pozzo. His oeuvre shows the paradigm change from book-based scholarship to empirical science. The gaze is always directed towards reality. Animal and plant studies served as preparation for his works, which in fact form the illustrations to the scientists' research. Together with them the painter belonged to an international republic of scholars whose image of Europe is still relevant for our worldview today.