Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy - Mary D. Garrard - Books - University of California Press - 9780520261525 - November 5, 2010
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Mary D. Garrard
Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy

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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.

448 pages, 16 color photographs and 241 black-and-white illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 5, 2010
ISBN13 9780520261525
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 448
Dimensions 225 × 284 × 39 mm   ·   2.28 kg
Language English  

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