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- catalog abstract ""Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism in the rise of empirical science, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann explores the history of Renaissance art to help explain the complex beginnings of the "scientific revolution." In a rich collection of new and previously published essays addressing conceptions of the mastery of nature, he discusses the depiction of nature in works of art, scientific approaches to understanding the world, and imperial claims to world control. This interdisciplinary approach elucidates the varying ways art, science, and humanism interact." "This book contains a new assessment of the origins of trompe l'oeil illumination in manuscript painting in response to religious devotional practices; an account of the history of shadow projection in art theory in relation to perspective, astronomy, and optics; an analysis of poems by the painter Georg Hoefnagel demonstrating how religious, philosophical, and political concerns impinge on questions of imitation; ground-breaking interpretations of Arcimboldo's paintings of composite heads as imperial allegories; an account of a poet-astronomer's collaboration with artists; an essay on "Ancients" and "Moderns" in art and science in Prague; and a new review of art, politics, science, and the Kunstkammer."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3776939.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism in the rise of empirical science, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann explores the history of Renaissance art to help explain the complex beginnings of the "scientific revolution." In a rich collection of new and previously published essays addressing conceptions of the mastery of nature, he discusses the depiction of nature in works of art, scientific approaches to understanding the world, and imperial claims to world control. This interdisciplinary approach elucidates the varying ways art, science, and humanism interact." "This book contains a new assessment of the origins of trompe l'oeil illumination in manuscript painting in response to religious devotional practices; an account of the history of shadow projection in art theory in relation to perspective, astronomy, and optics; an analysis of poems by the painter Georg Hoefnagel demonstrating how religious, philosophical, and political concerns impinge on questions of imitation; ground-breaking interpretations of Arcimboldo's paintings of composite heads as imperial allegories; an account of a poet-astronomer's collaboration with artists; an essay on "Ancients" and "Moderns" in art and science in Prague; and a new review of art, politics, science, and the Kunstkammer."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-316) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xix, 325 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691032041 :".
- catalog identifier "069103205X :".
- catalog isPartOf "Princeton essays on the arts".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog subject "700/.9/024 20".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Renaissance.".
- catalog subject "Art, Renaissance.".
- catalog subject "CB361 .K36 1993".
- catalog subject "Renaissance.".
- catalog subject "Science, Renaissance.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The mastery of nature : aspects of art, science, and humanism in the Renaissance / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann.".
- catalog type "text".