@Book{1759804061, author="{Material World: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature, in Ancient Literature and its Renaissance Reception 2018 Florenz}", editor="Hedreen, Guy Michael", title="Material world: the intersection of art, science, and nature in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception", series="NIKI studies in Netherlandish-Italian art history volume 15", year="2021", publisher="Brill", address="Leiden", keywords="Material culture; Europe; History; Material culture in literature; Material culture in art; Renaissance; Art and history", abstract="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 D{\"u}rer / Guy Hedreen.", note="edited by Guy Hedreen", note="``The present volume contains the papers that were delivered at the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence on April 20-21, 2018.''", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="9789004461376", doi="10.1163/9789004461376", url="https://brill.com/abstract/title/56945", url="https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9789004423763.pdf", url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004461376", language="English" }