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Pierre Belon's treatise on birds, published in Paris in 1555, is regarded as a pioneering early work of ornithology. Christine Kleiter analyzes this work in its exceptional position as one of the first printed and illustrated natural history treatises. She shows how the text and images pursue the claim to systematically document and catalog knowledge. In doing so, she compares Belon's work with that of other naturalists, such as Conrad Gessner and Ulisse Aldrovandi. It becomes clear that Belon drew on a variety of sources - from living and dead animals to specimens and drawings - and depicted some animals that had never been seen or described before in Europe. This volume thus offers a completely new insight into the research practices of the early modern period.

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Christine Kleiter, Postdoc-Assistentin am Kunsthistorischen Seminar der Universität Basel in der Abteilung Kunstgeschichte der frühen Neuzeit. 2024 war sie Fritz Thyssen Postdoc-Stipendiatin am Deutschen Studienzentrum in Venedig. 2023 schloss sie ihre Promotion im Fach der Kunstgeschichte an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ab. Während ihrer Promotion war sie als wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut tätig. Ihre Forschung wurde u.a. durch das Cusanuswerk gefördert. Christine Kleiter, postdoctoral assistant at the Department of Art History, Early Modern Art Section, University of Basel. In 2024 she was a Fritz Thyssen Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Study Centre in Venice. In 2023, she completed her doctorate in art history at Georg August University of Göttingen. During her doctorate, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Art History in Florence - Max Planck Institute. Her research was funded in part by the Cusanuswerk.

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