Security: Natural history specimens as works of art

The article discusses the structure and methodology of conducting a lesson with fourth-graders on the natural history topic “Poisonous animals. Poisonous Mushrooms “within the framework of mastering the content of the training course “The-World-Around-Us”. The teacher implements the set goals of the lesson on the basis of the use of problem situations, comparison of drawings with the corresponding texts, the widespread use of visual material and works of art. Simultaneously with the expansion of knowledge about poisonous animals and mushrooms, younger schoolchildren develop ideas about the

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Dzieło M.B. Valentiniego Museum museorum i inne publikacje muzeograficzne z gdańskich księgozbiorów oraz ich znaczenie w kształtowaniu zbiorów przyrodniczych i artystycznych w XVII i XVIII wieku

Opuscula Musealia ◽

10.4467/20843852.om.20.008.13747 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 131-167

Author(s):

Antoni Romuald Chodyński

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

New World ◽

17Th Century ◽

Previous Knowledge ◽

Frankfurt Am Main ◽

Surrounding World ◽

Works Of Art ◽

The Alps ◽

Research Objects ◽

Clear Increase

The work of M.B. Valentini “Museum museorum” and other museographical publications from the Gdańsk book collections and their significance in the formation of the natural history collections in the 17th and 18th centuries After 1700 we observe a clear increase in the number of conscious collectors gathering works of art, naturalia and various curiosities – mirabilia, typical of many Baroque “chambers” (Kammer) that were created by collectors during the previous, 17th century. Michael Bernhard Valentini (1657–1729), court physician at the court of the Landgrave of Hessen, published a compendium of encyclopaedic knowledge, a work for academic collectors of natural history specimens, entitled Museum museorum (Vol. I–II, Frankfurt am Main 1704–1714). Valentini provided information about various noteworthy things found in the Old and New World as well as in Asia (India), sometimes exceeding the limits of previous knowledge, both for researchers and collectors. Valentini’s work may be seen as evidence of a real collector’s fever, directed not only at all kinds of rare and curious things (curiosities) but also research objects collected for study purposes, especially in countries north of the Alps (e.g. natural amber and amber with insect inclusions). This German author recommended in his proposed programme for the creation of an ideal modern museum that objects should be arranged into groups, for example naturalia and artificialia and then divided into more detailed subgroups in order to make them more visible and their content more comprehensible, therefore enriching the knowledge of the surrounding world.

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Picture Lessons

10.1093/oso/9780190225032.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Anne Carter

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Classroom Instruction ◽

Trompe L'oeil ◽

Teaching Aids ◽

Works Of Art ◽

Object Lessons ◽

The Subject ◽

Material Things ◽

Combined Images ◽

Information Objects

Chapter 3 considers different variations of object lessons, particularly object lessons on pictures and lessons that address the relationships between objects and pictures in the classroom. Picture lessons raise epistemological questions about the kind of information objects and images may transmit and suggest strategies that were employed to teach children how to interpret images. The methods were applied to hybrid object pictures, teaching aids that combined images with material things, and images designed for classroom instruction, covering topics like the trades and natural history. Works of art not necessarily created to be the subject of object lessons, like genre scenes and trompe l’oeil paintings, could also be used, offering new ways to think about the art historical possibilities of these categories more broadly. The first three chapters provide an overview of the ways object lessons and object teaching more generally were implemented in US schools.

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MIECZYSŁAW TRETER, CONTEMPORARY MUSEUMS

Muzealnictwo ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.2802 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 60 ◽

pp. 103-107

Author(s):

Tomasz F. de Rosset

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Natural History Museums ◽

The Past ◽

Its Analysis ◽

History Museums ◽

Works Of Art ◽

Character Classification ◽

As If ◽

Museum Exhibition

In 2019, the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections in cooperation with the Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy published the 1917 book by Mieczysław Treter titled Contemporary Museums as the first volume in the Monuments of Polish Museology Series. The study consists of two parts originally released in ‘Muzeum Polskie’ published by Treter in Kiev; it was an ephemeral periodical associated with the Society for the Protection of Monuments of the Past, active predominantly in the Kingdom of Poland, but also boasting numerous branches in Polish communities throughout Russia. The Author opens the first part of a theoretical format with a synthesized presentation of the genesis of the museum institution (also on the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), to later follow to its analysis in view of its collecting and displaying character, classification according to the typical factual areas it covers, chronology, and territory (general natural history museums, general history ones, technological ones, ethnographic ones, historical-social ones, historical-artistic ones); moreover, he tackles questions like a museum exhibition, management, a museum building. In Treter’s view the museum’s mission is not to provide simple entertainment, neither is it to create autonomous beauty (realm of art), but it is of a strictly scientific character, meant to serve science and its promotion, though through this museums become elitist: by serving mainly science, they cannot provide entertainment and excitement to every amateur, neither are they, as such, works of art to which purely aesthetical criteria could be applied. The second part of Treter’s study is an extensive outline of the situation of Polish museums on the eve of WWI, in a way overshadowed by the first congress of Polish museologists, and in the perspective of the ‘museum world’ of the Second Polish Republic. It is an outline for the monograph on Polish museums, a kind of a report on their condition as in 1914 with some references to later years. Through this it becomes as if a closure of the first period of their history, which the Author, when involved in writing his study, could obviously only instinctively anticipate.

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Painted by nature, printed by artists

Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek ◽

10.1163/22145966-07101011 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 71 (1) ◽

pp. 276-312

Author(s):

V.E. Mandrij

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

17Th Century ◽

Similar Technique ◽

Human Relationships ◽

Works Of Art ◽

Dutch Painter ◽

Combine Medium

This article brings the 17th-century Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the contemporary German artist Maximilian Prüfer into dialogue. It investigates in particular Marseus’ and Prüfer’s use of butterfly scales as materials and motifs in their works of art. Both artists developed a similar technique of butterfly imprints (lepidochromy), which consists of transferring the scales of real butterflies onto another surface. The imprints thus combine medium with representation and the object being represented. The artists used a variety of animal substances to make their artworks, some still visible, some not, and gathered living animals to depict after life or to work with in other ways. Knowledge of and interest in natural history inform the work of both artists but their reflections on human relationships with other animals and with ‘nature’ differ.

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Formation of the foundations of ecological culture among preschoolers by means of art

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202131102007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 311 ◽

pp. 02007

Author(s):

O. P. Radynova ◽

I. V. Gruzdova ◽

I. A. Korsakova

Keyword(s):

Preschool Children ◽

Natural History ◽

Emotional Responsiveness ◽

Works Of Art ◽

Mechanisms Of Formation ◽

Native Nature ◽

Ecological Culture

The article reveals the problem of forming the foundations of ecological culture in preschool children by means of musical art. Formation of the foundations of ecological culture occurs not only on the basis of accumulation of natural history knowledge, in preschool childhood this process proceeds more efficiently if it is based on sensory cognition of the beauty and harmony of nature, the motives of a respectful attitude towards nature crystallize in the experience of emotional and value experiences. The article authors consider the mechanisms of formation of a child’s ecological culture in the process of perceiving the artistic and figurative content of music. Sensual experience as the basis of cognition in art makes it possible to form a system of value experiences, including those associated with the child’s attitude to animate and inanimate nature. Emotional responsiveness to the beauty of music, works of art reflecting images of nature is associated with responsiveness in life. The need to protect, preserve and increase the wealth of native nature can be brought up in the experience of communicating with music, if the child experiences the content of the musical image as a personally significant event.

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How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002413 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Hannes Rakoczy

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Intentional Stance ◽

Cognitive Capacities ◽

Shared Intentionality ◽

History Of ◽

Group Thinking ◽

Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

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On the assembly and structural modulation of lens fiber junctions

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100110805 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 110-113

Author(s):

E.L. Benedetti ◽

I. Dunia ◽

Do Ngoc Lien ◽

O. Vallon ◽

D. Louvard ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Molecular Weight ◽

Natural History ◽

Intercellular Junctions ◽

Eye Lens ◽

Membrane Domains ◽

Functional Polymorphism ◽

Lens Fiber ◽

The Past ◽

Structural Modulation ◽

Biochemical Difference

In the eye lens emerging molecular and structural patterns apparently cohabit with the remnants of the past. The lens in a rather puzzling fashion sums up its own natural history and even transient steps of the differentiation are memorized. A prototype of this situation is well outlined by the study of the lenticular intercellular junctions. These membrane domains exhibit structural, biochemical and perhaps functional polymorphism reflecting throughout life the multiple steps of the differentiation of the epithelium into fibers and of the ageing process of the lenticular cells.The most striking biochemical difference between the membrane derived from the epithelium and from the fibers respectively, concerns the presence of the 26,000 molecular weight polypeptide (MP26) in the latter membranes.

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