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Material World: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and Its Renaissance Reception (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004423763)
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xThe 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.
Author: Guy Hedreen
ISBN-10: 9004423761
ISBN-13: 9789004423763
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2021
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d
Author: Guy Hedreen
ISBN-10: 9004423761
ISBN-13: 9789004423763
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2021
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d
By Guy Hedreen
xGuy 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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