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Brunelleschi's Egg : Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy by Mary D. Garrard (2010, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520261526

ISBN-139780520261525

eBay Product ID (ePID)84451825

Product Key Features

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBrunelleschi's Egg : Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy

Publication Year2010

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Europe / Italy, Gender Studies, Aesthetics, European

TypeTextbook

AuthorMary D. Garrard

Subject AreaArt, Philosophy, Social Science, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight81.8 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-008371

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Brunelleschi's Egg is an immensely stimulating, thought-provoking book that represents a major contribution to Renaissance studies."-- Renaissance Qtly, Brunelleschi's Egg is an immensely stimulating, thought-provoking book that represents a major contribution to Renaissance studies., "Excellent. . . . Mary Garrard's contributions to art history are considerable."-- Woman's Art Journal, _Brunelleschi_s Egg is an immensely stimulating, thought-provoking book that represents a major contribution to Renaissance studies._

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal709.02/4

SynopsisFeminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of nature--from an organic worldview to the scientific--was assisted by the gender metaphor that defined nature as female. In this provocative and groundbreaking book, Mary D. Garrard extends this analysis to the history of art and proposes that the larger shift was both anticipated and mediated by the visual arts. In case studies of such major figures as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Giorgione, and Titian, Garrard examines the changing relationship of art and nature in the Renaissance, and shows how they were cast by artists and theorists as gendered competitors in a steadily escalating rhetoric.

LC Classification NumberN72.F45G38 2010