Brunelleschi's egg : nature, art, and gender in Renaissance Italy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010] |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.