Material World

Material World

The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and its Renaissance Reception

Hedreen, Guy

Brill

06/2021

310

Dura

Inglês

9789004423763

15 a 20 dias

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Director's Remarks

?Michael W. Kwakkelstein



Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: The Material World and Its Limits

?Guy Hedreen



1 Plato's Attitude toward Painting and Mathematics

?Ernesto Paparazzo



2 The Vitruvian Body in De architectura's Third Preface: Architecture and Rhetoric between Nature and Art

?Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols



3 Cera d'api: la storia naturale di un medium archetipico

?Verity Platt



4 'We Penetrate the Earth's Innards and Search for Riches': Pliny's Hierarchy of Materials and Its Influence in the Renaissance

?Sarah Blake McHam



5 Moving Wood, Man Immobile: Hero's Automata at the Urbino Court

?Courtney Roby



6 Terremoti artificiali. La sismologia aristotelica nella guerra sotterranea del Rinascimento

?Morgan Ng



7 The Heptaphonon and the Architecture of Echoes

?Carolyn Yerkes



8 A Changing Earth: Strabo and Leonardo's Scientific Humanism

?Domenico Laurenza



9 Into the Wild: Living Landscape and Wonderment in Renaissance Art

?Dennis Geronimus



10 Botticelli's Venus and Mars, Lucretius and Empedocles

?Gordon Campbell



11 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 Duerer

?Guy Hedreen



Index of Primary Literary Sources

Index of Works of Art

General Index