The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry : Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution / Samuel Y. Edgerton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgerton, Samuel Y., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

General Science.

West European History.

Local Subjects:

General Science.

West European History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.) : 130 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This ambitious book explores the relationship between the Western "scientific revolution" that began with Galileo in the early seventeenth century and the Renaissance "artistic revolution" inaugurated by Giotto three hundred years earlier.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. Geometry, Renaissance Art, and Western Culture

1. Sicut haec figura docet: Conceptualizing the Third Dimension in Early Medieval Picture Making

2. Geometrization of Pictorial Space: The Master of the Second Painted Modillion Border at Assisi

3. Geometrization of the Supernatural: Fra Lippo Lippi's London Annunciation

4. Geometrization of Terrestrial Space: Inventing Pictorial Conventions

5. Image and Word in Sixteenth-Century Printed Technical Books

6. Geometrization of Heavenly Space: Raphael's Disputa

7. Geometrization of Astronomical Space: Galileo, Florentine Disegno, and the "Strange Spottednesse" of the Moon

8. Geometry and Jesuits in the Far East

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3418-0

OCLC:

1143796799