Artist
Joris Hoefnagel
Flemish, 1542–1600
Joris Hoefnagel was a Flemish Northern Renaissance artist. 286 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art. Joris Hoefnagel was born in Antwerp.
Forum Vulcani: The Hot Springs at Pozzuoli
Plate 76: Insects with a Pink and Cream Columbine
Title Page
Plate 9: Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Clouded Yellow, and Bath White Butterflies
Plate 10: Brown Hairstreak, Silver-Washed Fritillary, and Clouded Yellow Butterflies on a Four-o'-Clock Flower
Plate 11: Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral Butterflies with a Mole Cricket
Joris Hoefnagel or Georg Hoefnagel (1542 – 24 July 1601) was a Flemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist, draftsman and merchant. He is noted for his illustrations of natural history subjects, topographical views, illuminations and mythological works. He was one of the last manuscript illuminators and made a major contribution to the development of topographical drawing.
His manuscript illuminations and ornamental designs played an important role in the emergence of floral still-life painting as an independent genre in northern Europe at the end of the 16th century. The almost scientific naturalism of his botanical and animal drawings served as a model for a later generation of Netherlandish artists. Through these nature studies he also contributed to the development of natural history and he was thus a founder of proto-scientific inquiry.
Works by Joris Hoefnagel
- Forum Vulcani: The Hot Springs at Pozzuoli
- Plate 76: Insects with a Pink and Cream Columbine
- Title Page
- Plate 9: Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Clouded Yellow, and Bath White Butterflies
- Plate 10: Brown Hairstreak, Silver-Washed Fritillary, and Clouded Yellow Butterflies on a Four-o'-Clock Flower
- Plate 11: Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral Butterflies with a Mole Cricket
Plate 12: Two Views of a Silver-Bordered Fritillary and a Mole Cricket
Plate 13: Yellow Swallowtail and Red Admiral Butterflies with a Dragonfly (Broad-Bodied Chaser?)
Plate 14: Common Brimstone, Painted Lady, and Clouded Yellow Butterflies
Plate 15: Grayling Butterfly, Magpie Moth, and Two Chrysalides
Plate 16: Black-Veined White, Clouded Yellow, Black Hairstreak(?), Geranium Argus(?), and Common Blue Butterflies with Two Chrysalides
Plate 17: Brimstone and Meadow Brown(?) Butterflies, a Blue Chaser, and Two Small Insects
Plate 18: Two Butterflies and a Moth with a Damselfly, Two Ants, and Four Other Insects
Plate 1: Pedro González (Petrus Gonsalvus) and His Wife, Catherine
Plate 19: Two Butterflies with Five Other Insects
Plate 20: Three Butterflies, a Caterpillar, a Bee, Two Chrysalides, and Three Weevils
Plate 21: A Butterfly with a Dragonfly, a Ladybug, and Five other Insects
Plate 22: A Cinnabar Moth and a Cockchafer with Butterflies, other Insects, and a Snapdragon
Plate 23: Hummingbird Hawk Moth, Butterflies, and Other Insects around a Snowberry Sprig
Plate 24: Pink Rose
Blue Underwing Moth and Spurge Hawk Moth (plate 25 from Ignis)
Plate 26: Two Hawk Moths
Plate 27: An Eyed Hawk-Moth, Two Chyrsalides, and Other Insects
Plate 28: Eight Moths, Including a Large Yellow Underwing and Grey Dagger
286 works in the catalog · 24 shown
Collections represented
- Plate 12: Two Views of a Silver-Bordered Fritillary and a Mole Cricket
- Plate 13: Yellow Swallowtail and Red Admiral Butterflies with a Dragonfly (Broad-Bodied Chaser?)
- Plate 14: Common Brimstone, Painted Lady, and Clouded Yellow Butterflies
- Plate 15: Grayling Butterfly, Magpie Moth, and Two Chrysalides
- Plate 16: Black-Veined White, Clouded Yellow, Black Hairstreak(?), Geranium Argus(?), and Common Blue Butterflies with Two Chrysalides
- Plate 17: Brimstone and Meadow Brown(?) Butterflies, a Blue Chaser, and Two Small Insects
- Plate 18: Two Butterflies and a Moth with a Damselfly, Two Ants, and Four Other Insects
- Plate 1: Pedro González (Petrus Gonsalvus) and His Wife, Catherine
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