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Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence / J. David Puett, Susan B. Puett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Modern Studies ; 17Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271091327
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.02/4 23
LOC classification:
  • N72.S3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Art in the Science, the Science in the Art -- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Art, Science, and Polity in Renaissance Florence -- Chapter 2: The Science of Art -- Chapter 3: Applying Mathematics to Art and Cartography -- Chapter 4: Renaissance Medicine: Physicians, Hospitals, Apothecaries, and the Artistic Dimension -- Chapter 5: Astronomy and Time Reckoning -- Chapter 6: Art and Technology -- Concluding Remarks: Connections between Science and Art -- Site Links -- Works Cited -- About the Authors
Summary: The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art to invigorate the soul; apothecaries prepared and dispensed, often from the same plants, both medicinals for patients and pigments for painters; utilitarian glassware and maps became objects to be admired for their beauty; art enhanced depictions of scientific observations; and innovations in construction made buildings canvases for artistic grandeur. An exploration of these and other intersections of art and science deepens our appreciation of the magnificent contributions of the extraordinary Florentines.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Art in the Science, the Science in the Art -- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Art, Science, and Polity in Renaissance Florence -- Chapter 2: The Science of Art -- Chapter 3: Applying Mathematics to Art and Cartography -- Chapter 4: Renaissance Medicine: Physicians, Hospitals, Apothecaries, and the Artistic Dimension -- Chapter 5: Astronomy and Time Reckoning -- Chapter 6: Art and Technology -- Concluding Remarks: Connections between Science and Art -- Site Links -- Works Cited -- About the Authors

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The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art to invigorate the soul; apothecaries prepared and dispensed, often from the same plants, both medicinals for patients and pigments for painters; utilitarian glassware and maps became objects to be admired for their beauty; art enhanced depictions of scientific observations; and innovations in construction made buildings canvases for artistic grandeur. An exploration of these and other intersections of art and science deepens our appreciation of the magnificent contributions of the extraordinary Florentines.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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