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
728
?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
?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