Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Art of the Butterfly : A Technical Study of Early Modern Lepidochromy (Studies in Early Modernity in the Netherlands)

With a strong focus on the techniques and materials involved in making butterfly imprints, this book introduces readers for the first time to the development, uses, and meanings of lepidochromy in the oeuvre of the Dutch painter and naturalist Otto Marseus van Schrieck at the crossroads of art and natural history.