Material World: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and Its Renaissance Reception - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Guy HedreenSeries:Niki Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art HistoryTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.), Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) StudiesPublish date:6/3/2021Pages:310
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004423763ISBN-10:9004423761UPC:9789004423763Book Category:History, Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Europe, Movements, History & SurveysBook Topic:Renaissance, MedievalSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.726Product ID:SCRJPVMAHW
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004423763ISBN-10:9004423761UPC:9789004423763Book Category:History, Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Europe, Movements, History & SurveysBook Topic:Renaissance, MedievalSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.726Product ID:SCRJPVMAHW
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).
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