Material World
The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and its Renaissance Reception
Published on 3. June 2021
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-90-04-42376-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Italian
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
742 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42376-3 (9789004423763)
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Guy 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).
Content
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
?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