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This volume addresses the presentation of artistic processes and their materials in the 'Natural History' and focuses on the issues that lie at the root of Pliny's work: his account of the technological, economical, ideological, and aesthetic aspects of materials. In his 'Natural History', Pliny the Elder organises his discussion of crafts according to the raw materials they utilize. However, scholarly literature has paid little attention to the aspect of materiality, preferring to focus on the biographies and achievements of ancient Greek artists. This collection instead addresses the presentation of artistic processes and their materials in the 'Natural History'. This approach corresponds with current developments in the study of Greco-Roman art, wherein scientific analysis of artistic materials including stones, pigments, and metal alloys, as well as a deeper understanding of workshop practices, has imposed profound changes on the methods used in the study of ancient artefacts.

Art --- art history --- natural history --- biological material --- Greco-Roman --- Pliny [Elder] --- Artists' materials --- Art, Greco-Roman. --- Matériel d'artistes --- Art gréco-romain. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Pliny, --- Art, Greco-Roman --- Greco-Roman art --- Art material --- Art materials --- Art supplies --- Painters' materials --- History --- Equipment and supplies --- Plinius Secundus, Caius --- Pline l'Ancien --- Plinius de Oudere --- Cayo Plinio Segundo --- Gaĭ Pliniĭ Sekund Starshiĭ --- Gaius Plinius Secundus --- Pliniĭ --- Pliniĭ Starshiĭ, Gaĭ Sekund --- Plinio, --- Plinio Segundo, Cayo --- Plinius Secundus, C. --- Plinius Secundus --- Plynius Secundus, C. --- Secundus, C. Plinius --- Secundus, Caius Plinius --- Secundus, Gaius Plinius --- Segundo, Cayo Plinio --- Pline,

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Pliny's Natural History (AD 77-79) served as an indispensable guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. Bearing the imprimatur of antiquity, the Natural History gave permission to do art on a grand scale, to value it, and to see it as an incomparable source of prestige and pleasure. In Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Sarah Blake McHam surveys Pliny's influence, from Petrarch, the first figure to recognize Pliny's relevance to understanding the history of Greek art and its reception by the Romans, to Vasari and late 16th-century theorists. McHam charts the historiography of Latin and Italian manuscripts and early printed copies of the Natural History to trace the dissemination of its contents to artists from Donatello and Ghiberti to Michelangelo and Titian. Meanwhile, benefactors commissioned works intended to emulate the prototypes Pliny described, aligning themselves with the great patrons of antiquity. This is a richly illustrated, comprehensive reference work of social history, myth making, iconography, theory, and criticism.

Renaissance --- Aesthetics --- Pliny [Elder] --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Art, Renaissance --- Aesthetics, Renaissance --- Aesthetics, Italian --- Sources --- Pliny, --- Appreciation --- Renaissance art --- Renaissance aesthetics --- Italian aesthetics --- Cayo Plinio Segundo --- Gaĭ Pliniĭ Sekund Starshiĭ --- Gaius Plinius Secundus --- Pliniĭ --- Pliniĭ Starshiĭ, Gaĭ Sekund --- Plinio, --- Plinio Segundo, Cayo --- Plinius Secundus, C. --- Plinius Secundus --- Plynius Secundus, C. --- Secundus, C. Plinius --- Secundus, Caius Plinius --- Secundus, Gaius Plinius --- Segundo, Cayo Plinio --- Pline, --- Appreciation. --- Aesthetics, Italian. --- Aesthetics, Renaissance. --- Art appreciation. --- Art, Renaissance. --- Kultur. --- Kunst. --- Renaissance. --- Rezeption. --- Ästhetik. --- Plinius Secundus, Gaius, --- Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder). --- Plinius Secundus, Gaius: Naturalis historia. --- Italien. --- Italy. --- Plinius Secundus, Caius --- Pline l'Ancien --- Plinius de Oudere --- Art, Renaissance - Italy - Sources --- Pliny, - the Elder - Appreciation --- Pliny, - the Elder. - Naturalis historia --- receptiegeschiedenis --- Pliny, - the Elder

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Latin language --- Natural history --- Latin (Langue) --- Sciences naturelles --- Grammar --- Technical Latin --- Terminology --- Grammaire --- Latin technique --- Terminologie --- Pliny, --- Language --- -Natural history --- -History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Pliny the Elder --- -Language --- Technical Latin. --- Terminology. --- Language. --- -Technical Latin --- Scientific Latin --- Technology --- Cayo Plinio Segundo --- Gaĭ Pliniĭ Sekund Starshiĭ --- Gaius Plinius Secundus --- Pliniĭ --- Pliniĭ Starshiĭ, Gaĭ Sekund --- Plinio, --- Plinio Segundo, Cayo --- Plinius Secundus, C. --- Plinius Secundus --- Plynius Secundus, C. --- Secundus, C. Plinius --- Secundus, Caius Plinius --- Secundus, Gaius Plinius --- Segundo, Cayo Plinio --- Pline, --- Plinius Secundus, Caius --- Pline l'Ancien --- Plinius de Oudere --- Latin language - Technical Latin --- Natural history - Terminology --- Pliny, - the Elder - Language --- Pline l'ancien (caius plinius secundus), naturaliste romain, 23-79 --- Langue --- Pliny, - the Elder

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"Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories--a view which has tended to overshadow its overall structure and purpose. In this book, Dr. Beagon redresses the balance and illuminates the Natural History as the work of an author with an identifiable mode of thinking and a coherent attitude towards his clearly-stated theme, Nature. Taking its cue from Pliny, the book examines his cosmology and in particular his portrayal of the relationship between nature and the creation he considered her greatest, Man. Author and work are also placed in their wider literary and historical context. Pliny himself emerges no longer as a faceless compiler but as a character with a valuable contribution to make to an understanding of intellectual attitudes in the first century AD. A more typical Roman than most of the intellectual authors studied today, he can offer a much more accurate picture of the Roman in his natural setting."--BOOK JACKET.

Antieke wetenschap --- Etres humains --- Filosofie van de natuur --- Homme (Humanité) --- Hommes (Humanité) --- Human beings --- Humanité (Ensemble des êtres humains) --- Humans --- Mankind --- Mens --- Mensdom --- Mensen --- Mensheid (Geheel der mensen) --- Nature (Philosophie) --- Nature (Philosophy) --- Nature [Philosophie de la ] --- Nature [Philosophy of ] --- Nature--Philosophie --- Nature--Philosophy --- Natuur (Filosofie) --- Natuur [Filosofie van de ] --- Natuur--Filosofie --- Natuurfilosofie --- Philosophie de la nature --- Philosophy of nature --- Science [Ancient ] --- Science de l'antiquité --- Wetenschap [Antieke ] --- Wetenschap van de Oudheid --- Wijsbegeerte van de natuur --- Science --- Science, Ancient. --- Human beings. --- History. --- Ecology. --- Philosophy. --- Man --- -Science, Ancient --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Philosophical Overview --- Hedonism --- Stoicism --- Overview, Philosophical --- Overviews, Philosophical --- Philosophical Overviews --- Philosophies --- Environmental Science --- Bionomics --- Ecologies --- Environmental Sciences --- Science, Environmental --- Sciences, Environmental --- Environmental Psychology --- Conservation of Natural Resources --- Environmental Health --- Ecosystem --- history. --- History --- Philosophy --- Pliny the Elder --- -Knowledge --- -Science --- Europe. --- Northern Europe --- Southern Europe --- Western Europe --- Philosophy of nature. --- Pliny, --- Knowledge --- Science. --- Pliny. --- Europe --- Science, Ancient --- Ecology --- Pharmacy Philosophy --- Pharmacy Philosophies --- Philosophies, Pharmacy --- Philosophy, Pharmacy --- history --- Cayo Plinio Segundo --- Gaĭ Pliniĭ Sekund Starshiĭ --- Gaius Plinius Secundus --- Pliniĭ --- Pliniĭ Starshiĭ, Gaĭ Sekund --- Plinio, --- Plinio Segundo, Cayo --- Plinius Secundus, C. --- Plinius Secundus --- Plynius Secundus, C. --- Secundus, C. Plinius --- Secundus, Caius Plinius --- Secundus, Gaius Plinius --- Segundo, Cayo Plinio --- Pline, --- Pliny, the Elder - Knowledge - Science. --- Pliny, the Elder Naturalis historia. --- Plinius Secundus, Caius --- Pline l'Ancien --- Plinius de Oudere --- Science - Europe - History.