Brunelleschi's egg: nature, art, and gender in renaissance italy
Auteur :
Garrard, Mary D.
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520261525
Date de publication :
5 nov. 2010
Dimensions :
27,9 x 21,6 x 3,8 cm
Poids :
2313 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Feminist 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. This book proposes that the larger shift was both anticipated and mediated by the visual arts.