{"id":64,"date":"2012-10-04T15:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=64"},"modified":"2012-11-02T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:44:24","slug":"aquatilium-animalium-historiae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/aquatilium-animalium-historiae\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatilium animalium historiae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu:8080\/ImageServer\/scrollnav.jsp?filename=1314641501734380.jp2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-82\" title=\"serpent Marina\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/serpent2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/repository2\/repoman.php?verb=render&amp;id=1314640484562501&amp;view=showmods\"><em>Aquatilium animalium historiae<\/em><\/a> was\u00a0 published in Rome in 1554 and is populated with 81 engravings of aquatic creatures by An<strong><\/strong>toine Lafr\u00e9ry and Nicolas Beatrizet.\u00a0Salviani\u2019s work is the first to use the technique of copper engraving for depicting fishes. The silvery, finely hatched lines of copper engraving represents the physical nature of fishes far more successfully than woodcuts. Lafr\u00e9ry and Beatrizet&#8217;s illustrations were ahead of their time, and their skill in depicting fish was unmatched for over a century. The book not only describes the different Mediterranean fishes, molluscs, and cephalopods, but includes information on capture techniques, nutritional value, and preparation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serpent Marina.&#8221;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Aquatilium animalium historia, liber primus<\/em> (Ippolito Salviani, 1554).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu:8080\/ImageServer\/scrollnav.jsp?filename=1314643658187527.jp2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89\" title=\"Orbis. Pesci Palumbo\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/13146436575156602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Orbis. Pesci Palombo.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Aquatilium animalium historia, liber primus<\/em> (Ippolito Salviani, 1554).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Aquatilium animalium historiae was\u00a0 published in Rome in 1554 and is populated with 81 engravings of aquatic creatures by Antoine Lafr\u00e9ry and Nicolas Beatrizet.\u00a0Salviani\u2019s work is the first to use the technique of copper engraving for depicting fishes. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/aquatilium-animalium-historiae\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,21,22,20],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-lownes-collection","tag-copper-engraving","tag-fishes","tag-history","tag-mediterranean","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}