TY - BOOK ID - 86044776 TI - Material world : the intersection of art, science, and nature in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception AU - Hedreen, Guy AU - Material World: the Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and its Renaissance Reception PY - 2021 SN - 9789004461376 9789004423763 900446137X 9004423761 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Art and history KW - History and art KW - History KW - History in art KW - Art KW - Classical literature KW - History of civilization KW - material culture [discipline] KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Europe KW - Material culture KW - Material culture in art KW - Material culture in literature KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - receptiegeschiedenis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86044776 AB - "The interplay between nature, science, and art in antiquity and the early modern period differs significantly from late modern expectations. In this book scholars from ancient studies as well as early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science, explore that interplay in several influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance. The Natural History of Pliny, De Architectura of Vitruvius, De Rerum Natura of Lucretius, Automata of Hero, and Timaios of Plato among other texts reveal how fields of inquiry now considered distinct were originally understood as closely interrelated. In our choice of texts, we focus on materialistic theories of nature, knowledge, and art that remain underappreciated in ancient and early modern studies even today"-- ER -