Jona und der Hai Zu einem frühneuzeitlichen Hai-Präparat zwischen Exegese und Naturgeschichte
Abstract A seventeenth-century dry preparation of a porbeagle which was combined with a wooden sculpture of the prophet Jonah is analyzed using pictorial theories that emphasize the paradox of preparations being both subject and material of a visual representation. It explains the combination of Jon...
| Published in: | Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2019
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zkg-2019-2002 http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zkg.2019.82.issue-2/ZKG-2019-2002/ZKG-2019-2002.xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ZKG-2019-2002/xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ZKG-2019-2002/pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract A seventeenth-century dry preparation of a porbeagle which was combined with a wooden sculpture of the prophet Jonah is analyzed using pictorial theories that emphasize the paradox of preparations being both subject and material of a visual representation. It explains the combination of Jonah and the shark by referring to speculations of early-modern natural history that the large fish that devoured Jonah must have been a shark. The preparation’s characteristic posture appears to be an adaptation of the depiction of a great white shark in Konrad Gessner’s Historia Animalium (1558), which had itself been drawn after a deformed dry preparation. The preparation of the porbeagle – probably made in an ecclesiastical context – thus represents less itself than a large shark. |
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