Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy
University of California Press (2010)
| Abstract | Introduction -- Great Mother Nature -- The gendering of nature as female : from prehistory through the Middle Ages -- Nature and art in the Quattrocento : from pupil to equal -- Technology and the mastery of physical nature : Brunelleschi and Alberti -- Genesis and the reproduction of life : Masaccio and Michelangelo -- The rebirth of Venus and the feminization of beauty : Botticelli -- A balance of power : pictorial metaphors for nature in transition -- Nature's special child : Leonardo da Vinci -- The goddess in Arcady : Giorgione -- Art and nature in the Cinquecento : from competitor to master -- Love and death in Venice : Titian -- Art against nature : Raphael, the early Mannerists, and late Michelangelo -- Natura bound : the later Tuscan Mannerists -- Epilogue. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Feminism and art Nature (Aesthetics Philosophy of nature History Renaissance | |||||||||
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| Call number | N72.F45.G38 2010 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0520261526 | |||||||||
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