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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Guy HedreenPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 15 Weight: 0.728kg ISBN: 9789004423763ISBN 10: 9004423761 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 03 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsDirector’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 Dürer Guy Hedreen Index of Primary Literary Sources Index of Works of Art General IndexReviewsAuthor InformationGuy Hedreen, Ph.D. (1988, Bryn Mawr College) is Amos Lawrence Professor of Art at Williams College. He is the author of three books, most recently The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece: Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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