Brunelleschi's egg : nature, art, and gender in Renaissance Italy / Mary D. Garrard.

• Introduction -- pt. 1. Great Mother Nature. The gendering of nature as female : from prehistory through the Middle Ages -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. A balance of power : pictorial metaphors for nature in transition. Nature's special child : Leonardo da Vinci ; The goddess in Arcady : Giorgione -- pt. 4. 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.

Ämnesord

Feminism and art.  (LCSH)

Nature (Aesthetics)  (LCSH)

Philosophy of nature  -- History. (LCSH)

Renaissance  -- Italy. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

709.45 (DDC)

Ib-i (kssb/8 (machine generated))