Reposted by Alex
“He Painted Bugs Like Jewels”. 16th-century Dutch artist Joris Hoefnagel painted some of the first dedicated and detailed images of insects in the world. If he’d lived 200 years later, you would have called him a naturalist. [kottke.org]
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“He Painted Bugs Like Jewels”
In a collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Evan Puschak made a video about 16th-century Dutch artist (and all-around polymath) Joris Hoefnagel, who painted some of the first dedicated and detailed images of i
