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acoustics 166–167, 169, 178 echo
Adam 198, 209
Adriatic Sea 183, 187
aesthetics 3n.7, 9, 19, 29, 37n.52, 61, 64, 72, 73n.29, 93, 113, 154, 265, 268
Agricola, Georg 138, 141, 144, 149, 151, 152
Ajax 111, 129
Alberti, Leon Battista 141, 147, 156, 175, 201, 252
Alexander the Great 59, 61, 64, 95, 97, 246n.43
Altdorfer, Albrecht 201, 206–207, 220
Amymone 127, 284
animals 7, 11, 23, 29, 55, 56, 73, 90, 119, 185, 200, 201, 204, 209–211, 231, 250, 257, 258, 267, 269, 283, 286, 294
animism 198
Aphrodite 226–227, 229, 233–234, 236, 239–241, 243, 247 Love; Venus
Archimedes 116–117, 120, 125, 130, 167
architecture 11–12, 50–58, 63, 93, 97
Ares 226–227, 229, 233–234, 241 Mars; Strife
Aristotle 1, 3, 14, 39–41, 71n.20, 73, 75, 119, 133–134, 136–137, 142, 144–149, 181, 185, 227, 253–254, 256, 258–259, 261–263, 265, 267–269
ataraxia 108, 234, 242
Athena 61–62, 111, 129, 268, 280 Minerva
atomism 3, 184, 186, 220
Augustine 42–43, 292
automata 13, 113–116, 118–123, 125–127, 129–130
Avicenna 137
Bacchus 127, 232–233, 246 Dionysus
Bacon, Francis 166–167, 169, 173 echo
Baldi, Bernardino 13, 111, 115–121, 125, 127, 129–130, 140, 291
bees 11, 67–84, 287–288 beeswax; honey
beeswax 11–12, 67, 72, 76, 78, 99, 121, 281, 288, 290 bees; honey
Biancani, Giuseppe 174
Black Sea 15, 183, 185–187, 287
body, human 10, 12, 17, 50–52, 55, 59, 60, 62, 64, 174, 175, 181, 198, 216, 246, 257, 288, 290
Botticelli 16, 226–229, 233, 243–247, 280–282, 292–293
Brunelleschi, Filippo 99–101
Canistris, Opicinus de 218–220
Cennini, Cennino 98, 266–267
centaur 226, 260–261, 263–264, 266, 268, 280–283
cera d’api see beeswax
Charenton-le-Pont 166–167, 173
Cicero 54–57, 62–64, 93, 116–117
clay 12–13, 90, 95–99, 102, 104, 120, 288
climate emergencies 210–211
Cyzicus 163, 165–167, 175
Dante 192, 203, 210
death masks 98–105
Dinocrates 51, 59–61, 64
Dionysus 127 Bacchus
Dürer, Albrecht 206, 209, 273–279, 282–283, 285–286, 288, 290, 293
Ear of Dionysius 167–169, 173
echo 14, 163–169, 173–174, 177–178, 198, 291 acoustics; Bacon, Francis
Echo 169, 173–175
ecosystem 210, 212
Egypt 42, 91, 127, 182, 185–186, 227
Empedocles 16–17, 226–229, 233–244, 246–247, 252–264, 269, 292–293
On Nature and Purifications, relationship between 227, 238–239
Strasbourg papyrus 16, 226, 227, 237, 239, 292
environmental art history 210–211
Epicureanism 3, 6, 10–11, 227, 231–232, 234, 241–242, 259, 261, 285
Euclid 35–36, 109, 184, 188
Eudemos 267–268
Eudoxus 38, 117
Europa 274–278
Evelyn, John 173–174
extinction 210
fantasia 17, 71, 216, 250, 252, 254, 256, 266–269 phantasia
Ficino, Marsilio 10, 42–44, 194, 201, 290
Filarete 138, 140, 141, 147
Flood, biblical 180–181, 189
fossils 15, 182–183, 185–187, 189, 287
geology 180, 182, 184–185, 187–189, 192, 216, 287, 291
geometry 10, 20, 23, 25, 32, 36, 38–39, 43, 123, 130, 184, 290
Giles of Viterbo 40
Gibraltar 15, 182, 185–186
Heptaphonon 14, 163–167, 173–175, 177–178
Heraclitus 195, 209
Hercules 59, 186, 244–247, 278
Hero of Alexandria 108–111, 113–116, 120–123, 125, 127, 129–130, 291
Homer 192, 201
honey 11, 67, 68, 74, 84, 287–288 bees; beeswax
Horace 17, 200, 256, 261–266
humanism, humanist 9–10, 14, 111–113, 115, 134, 151, 164, 182, 184–185, 188, 286, 288, 291
idealism 1, 13
imagines, Roman funerary 69, 78–79, 81–82, 288
independent landscape see landscape
inter-species 250, 253–254, 256, 259, 261
landscape 15, 163, 169, 180, 189, 191–225, 250, 252, 276, 277, 286
Leonardo da Vinci 15–16, 180–189, 191–195, 197–198, 200–216, 220, 252, 286–288, 290
Love 227–229, 233–236, 239, 241, 243 Aphrodite, Venus
Lucretius 3, 5–9, 12, 14–17, 57, 62, 173–175, 184, 195, 196, 198–201, 209, 211, 216, 218, 22, 226–236, 241–247, 253nn.9–10, 259–264, 277n.14, 285–287, 292, 293
Lysippos 81, 95, 97
Lysistratos 81
Magnus, Albertus 137
mappae mundi 218
Marchi, Francesco De 138, 147, 149, 154–156
Mars 16, 226–229, 231–232, 241–246, 293 Ares; Strife
material world 1–4, 10, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 32, 34, 39, 40, 43, 44, 290
materialism, materialist 2–11, 13, 14, 76, 195, 286, 293
materiality 34, 72, 79, 83, 84, 120, 125, 130
mathematics, mathematician 10, 12, 13, 19–20, 23, 32–40, 111, 115–117, 120–121, 123, 125, 130, 164, 174, 183, 184, 188, 288, 290, 291
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 165–166, 177
Mediterranean Sea 15, 182–187, 287
meraviglia 191
metals and metallurgy 12, 102, 121, 130, 133, 144, 147, 287, 288
Michelangelo 180–181, 220n.49, 276
Minerva 280 Athena
mining (and counter-mining) 13, 14, 94, 104, 135, 146, 147, 154, 155, 210, 287
Mother Earth 94–95, 97, 104, 231
Narcissus 174–175
natura naturans/natura naturata 195, 198, 199n.17
nature 7, 10–16, 51–64, 90–91, 93–94, 121, 194–196, 198–201, 203–204, 207–209, 211, 214, 220, 231, 234, 238, 241, 250, 254, 256–258, 264, 265, 269, 285–288, 290
Nauplius 111, 127, 129
neoplatonism 9, 16, 31, 42, 109, 201, 290
Omphale 244–246
Ovid 174–175, 192, 246, 275
Panofsky, Erwin 2–5, 7–11, 16, 273–276, 280, 282, 290–291
parrhesia 52, 57, 59–62, 64
Pausanias 163, 169, 174, 242
Petrarch 98, 201
phantasia 98, 207, 267–268 fantasia
Piero di Cosimo 4–9, 15, 17, 195, 200, 201, 208, 209, 211, 250–254, 267, 269, 277, 286
Plato, Platonic 1–4, 9–12, 19–49, 198n.16, 244, 264, 265, 290
Pliny 3, 7n.16, 11–14, 67–84, 90–105, 163–167, 169, 173–175, 200n.19, 209, 216, 252n.6, 287, 291
Plot, Robert 169, 172–173
Plutarch 117, 130, 163
pneuma 13–14, 137, 142
primitive, primitivism 12, 54, 125, 194, 198n.14, 207, 278, 293
Ptolemy 183–184
Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism 36, 43, 290
Raphael 40–43
rhetoric 10–11, 52, 55–57, 60–64, 91, 130, 264–265
Sangallo, Antonio da, the younger 146, 148, 165, 166
Sangallo, Giuliano da 152–153
satyr 207, 243–246, 269, 275–278, 280, 282–286, 290, 293
science 3, 13, 19, 29, 39, 90, 94, 95, 109, 135, 136, 141, 184, 198n.15, 269, 293
selva 203
Signorelli, Luca 17, 254
Simplicius 253, 256–258
Skylla 261, 263–264
Socrates 57–61, 64, 290
soul 9–10, 23–25, 29–31, 61, 129, 178, 227, 239–241, 247, 285
speciation 17, 252–254, 256, 259, 262, 269
Stoicism 3, 6, 10–12, 52–53, 57, 61, 94, 104, 184, 195, 232, 268, 285, 287
Strabo 15–16, 184–189, 287
Strife 227–229, 233–236, 238–239, 241–243 Ares; Mars
terracotta 98, 101–104
Ulysses 127, 129
Urbino 13, 111, 116–117
Valle, Pietro della 167, 169
Varro 93, 97
Vasari, Giorgio 8, 194, 220n.49, 250, 252, 256, 286
Venus 6, 16, 226–232, 234, 236, 241–246, 247, 293 Aphrodite; Love
Vitruvius 50–57, 59–65, 166, 200, 288, 290
wax see beeswax
wilderness 200, 202–207, 210, 285
wonder 48, 121, 130, 192, 194, 220
woods and forest 192, 196, 201, 203, 207, 208, 220, 231, 265n.28, 283–286
Zeus 61–62, 231–232, 241, 251, 268, 271

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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
Cover Material World
E-Book ISBN:
9789004461376
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
21 May 2021
  • Subjects
    • Art History
      • Art History
    • Classical Studies
      • Classical Tradition & Reception Studies
    • History
      • Early Modern History
      • Art History
    • Literature and Cultural Studies
      • Literature, Arts & Science
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright page
Director’s Remarks
Acknowledgements
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction The Material World and Its Limits
Chapter 1 Plato’s Attitude toward Painting and Mathematics
Chapter 2 The Vitruvian Body in De architectura’s Third Preface: Architecture and Rhetoric between Nature and Art
Chapter 3 Cera d’api: la storia naturale di un medium archetipico
Chapter 4 ‘We Penetrate the Earth’s Innards and Search for Riches’: Pliny’s Hierarchy of Materials and Its Influence in the Renaissance
Chapter 5 Moving Wood, Man Immobile: Hero’s Automata at the Urbino Court
Chapter 6 Terremoti artificiali. La sismologia aristotelica nella guerra sotterranea del Rinascimento
Chapter 7 The Heptaphonon and the Architecture of Echoes
Chapter 8 A Changing Earth: Strabo and Leonardo’s Scientific Humanism
Chapter 9 Into the Wild: Living Landscape and Wonderment in Renaissance Art
Chapter 10 Botticelli’s Venus and Mars, Lucretius and Empedocles
Chapter 11 Fantasia and Speciation: Traces of Empedocles in Ancient Poetry and Renaissance Art
Coda Temporality and the Reception of Ancient Culture: An Example from Dürer
Back Matter
Index of Primary Literary Sources
Index of Works of Art
General Index

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