This porous relationship between art and science fueled van Schriek's friendships with scholars such as Johannes Swammerdam and Cassiano dal Pozzo, and inspired his membership in a broader international republic of scholars. Titled after one of van Schriek's most famous paintings, Medusa's Menagerie situates the artist for the first time within the context of his scholarly contemporaries, revealing an unknown side of the Golden Century of Netherlandish painting, and illuminating how scientific advances influenced the region's artistic fascination with the dark, the hidden, and the uncanny.
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