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How visual art gives us rich insights into how our brains work
Updated / Friday, 29 Jan 2021
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Album sheet with a rose, 1675 by Maria Merian. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
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The arts are often portrayed as the polar opposite of the sciences. However, a closer inspection reveals a rich shared history in which the two approaches have, at different times, acted in a symbiotic manner.
Drawings and paintings were the only way in which scientific observations could be conveyed to others during those historical epochs before mass reproduction of images was possible. Da Vinci s anatomical drawings or Galileo s watercolour sketches of the moon are two examples of this. Later, the painted illustrations by artists such as Maria Merian, Ellen Hutchins, Genevieve Jones and Beatrix Potter paved the way for the classification of a variety of flora, fauna and fun