Material World

The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and Its Renaissance Reception
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42376-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

Reihe: NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hedreen, Guy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Dürer

Guy Hedreen

Index of Primary Literary Sources

Index of Works of Art

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).