Representing Nature

Coleccion de laminas que representan los animales y monstruos, tav. 221 Pesce volante

As the French physicist and mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) asserts, "the scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he derives pleasure from it; and he derives pleasure because it's beautiful [...]. I refer to that inner beauty that comes from that harmonic order of its parts'.

This is a space dedicated to the suggestion of the images, by differing depictions in ancient colours, taken from the botanical, anthropological and zoological works, chosen specifically to "illustrate" science.

The science that resides in the taxonomic studies, in the drawing and printing techniques becomes art at the very moment it changes the point of view, from that of the scientist, it becomes that of a poet, writer and artist.