Painting the heavens : art and science in the age of Galileo / Eileen Reeves.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Reeves, Eileen Adair

Contributor:

• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Astronomy in art.
• Painting, European.
• Painting, Modern--17th century--Europe.
• Painting, Modern--18th century--Europe.
• Painting, Modern.
• Art and science.
• History.
• Europe.
• Art and science--Europe--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

x, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]

Summary:

The remarkable astronomical discoveries made by Galileo with the new telescope in 1609-10 led to his famous disputes with philosophers and religious authorities, most of whom found their doctrines threatened by his evidence for Copernicus's heliocentric universe. In this book, Eileen Reeves brings an art historical perspective to this story as she explores the impact of Galileo's heavenly observations on painters of the early seventeenth century. By examining a group of paintings by early modern artists interested in Galileo's evidence for a Copernican system, Reeves explores the relationship between science and art in the broader context of theological and political struggle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-303) and index.

Local Notes:

• Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
• Furness has: second printing, and first paperback printing, 1999.

ISBN:

0691043981

OCLC:

36029723

Online:

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page