Material world : the intersection of art, science, and nature in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Hedreen, Guy Michael 1958-
, [HerausgeberIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Schriftenreihe: |
NIKI studies in Netherlandish-Italian art history
v. 15 |
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Material world (Online version:) | ISSN: 9789004461376 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: The material world and its limits / Guy Hedreen
- Plato's attitude toward painting and mathematics / Ernesto Paparazzo
- The Vitruvian body in De architectura's third preface : architecture and rhetoric between nature and art / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
- Cera d'api : la storia naturale di un medium archetipico / Verity Platt
- 'We penetrate the Earth's innards and search for riches' : Pliny's hierarchy of materials and its influence in the Renaissance / Sarah Blake McHam
- Moving wood, man immobile : Hero's Automata at the Urbino Court / Courtney Roby
- Terremoti artificiali. La sismologia aristotelica nella guerra sotterranea del Rinascimento / Morgan Ng
- The Heptaphonon and the architecture of echoes / Carolyn Yerkes
- A changing Earth : Strabo and Leonardo's scientific humanism / Domenico Laurenza
- Into the wild : living landscape and wonderment in Renaissance art / Dennis Geronimus
- Botticelli's Venus and Mars, Lucretius and Empedocles / Gordon Campbell
- Fantasia and speciation : traces of empedocles in ancient poetry and Renaissance art / Guy Hedreen
- Coda: Temporality and the reception of ancient culture : an example from Dürer / Guy Hedreen.
