• Media type: Book
  • Title: Brunelleschi's egg : nature, art, and gender in Renaissance Italy
  • Contains: 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.
  • Contributor: Garrard, Mary D. [Author]
  • imprint: Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]: University of California Press, 2010
  • Extent: X, 429 S.; zahlr. Ill; 28 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780520261525; 0520261526
  • RVK notation: LN 10250 : Hochrenaissance (und Renaissance allgemein)
    LH 60250 : Frauenkunst, Feministische Kunst, Geschlechterforschung (Gender Studies)
  • Keywords: Italien > Renaissance > Kunst > Feminismus > Naturphilosophie > Ästhetik
    Italien > Kunst > Frau > Naturbeobachtung > Naturgeschichte > Geschichte 1420-1600
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Shelf-mark: LN 10250 G238
  • Item ID: 33063777