The mastery of nature : aspects of art, science, and humanism in the Renaissance / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann.
- Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta.
- Date:
- [1993], ©1993
- Books
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993], ©1993.
Physical description
xix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographic references (p. [225]-316) and index
Contents
The sanctification of nature : observations on the origins of Trompe l'oeil in Netherlandish book painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / co-author, Virginia Roehrig Kaufmann -- The perspective of shadows : the history of the theory of shadow projection -- The nature of imitation : Hoefnagel on Dürer -- Metamorphoses of nature : Arcimboldo's imperial allegories -- Arcimboldo and Propertius : a classical source for Rudolf II as Vertumnus -- Astronomy, technology, humanism, and art at the entry of Rudolf II into Vienna, 1577 : the role of Paulus Fabritius -- "Ancients and moderns" in Prague : Arcimboldo's drawings for silk manufacture -- From mastery of the world to mastery of nature : the Kunstkammer, politics, and science.
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Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB
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- 069103205X :
- 0691032041