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Material world : the intersection of art, science, and nature in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception

Title: Material world : the intersection of art, science, and nature in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception / edited by Guy Hedreen.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Description

xvii, 308 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm.

Summary

"The interplay between nature, science, and art in antiquity and the early modern period differs significantly from late modern expectations. In this book scholars from ancient studies as well as early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science, explore that interplay in several influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance. The Natural History of Pliny, De Architectura of Vitruvius, De Rerum Natura of Lucretius, Automata of Hero, and Timaios of Plato among other texts reveal how fields of inquiry now considered distinct were originally understood as closely interrelated. In our choice of texts, we focus on materialistic theories of nature, knowledge, and art that remain underappreciated in ancient and early modern studies even today"--

Series Statement

NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History ; 15

Uniform Title

NIKI studies in Netherlandish-Italian art history ; 15.

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Note

"The present volume contains the papers that were delivered at the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence on April 20-21, 2018."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 22-1788

ISBN

9789004423763
9004423761

LCCN

2021011111

OCLC

1245958553

Title

Material world : the intersection of art, science, and nature in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception / edited by Guy Hedreen.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History ; 15

NIKI studies in Netherlandish-Italian art history ; 15.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958- editor.

Istituto universitario olandese di storia dell'arte, issuing body.

Other Form:

Online version: Material world Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004461376 (DLC) 2021011112

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1788

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