Dr. Janice Neri joined the Art Department in 2004. She has a Ph.D. in Visual Studies
from the University of California, Irvine, and her primary teaching focus is Renaissance
and Baroque art history. Dr. Neri is an expert on entomological illustration and her
book, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, was
published in 2011 by the University of Minnesota Press. 

Articles

Some Early Drawings by Robert Hooke, Archives of Natural History (2005)
 

Books

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The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, Faculty Authored Books (2011)

This book explores the ways in which visual images defined the insect as a proper...

 

Contributions to Books

Mom, Tested, Visible Mothers: Images of Parenting in Visual Culture (2010)
 

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Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850 (2008)