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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958- editor.

Series:

NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--History--Europe--Congresses.

Material culture.

Material culture in art--Congresses.

Material culture in art.

Material culture in literature--Congresses.

Material culture in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2021]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46137-X

OCLC:

1245961350