Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiii, 450 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Subject

1. Pliny, the Elder > Appreciation
2. Pliny, the Elder
3. Art, Renaissance > Italy > Sources
4. Aesthetics, Renaissance
5. Aesthetics, Italian

Contents

1. The art history of a book on science -- Pliny's career and the scope of the Natural history; its reception in antiquity and the middle ages -- Pliny on ancient art: the contents of the Natural history, books 33-37 -- Petrarch's Pliny -- Following Petrarch: the widening influence of Pliny on fourteenth-century readers and artists -- Illuminating, collecting and critiquing the Natural history in fifteenth-century Italy -- Alberti, Ghiberti and the early Florentine response to Pliny -- Pliny as an inspiration for fifteenth-century humanists, educators, patrons and artists in north Italy -- Pliny in print and in stone -- Mantegna and Leonardo strive to be a new Apelles -- Pliny helps spur the development of new subject matters -- The Plinian signature as a badge of prestige -- Pliny and the formation of art collections in Florence -- Laocoön, or Pliny vindicated -- Beyond Laocoön: Plinian anecdotes as inspiration for subjects and commissions -- Pliny's influence on early sixteenth-century theoretical treatises -- Vasari and Pliny as historians of art -- Pliny's influence on theoretical treatises after Vasari -- Summing up Pliny's legacy.

Call number

1. JQF 13-655

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. McHam, Sarah Blake.

Title

1. Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance : the Legacy of the Natural History / Sarah Blake McHam.

Publisher

1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2012028930

ISBN

1. 9780300186031 (cl : alk. paper)
2. 0300186037 (cl : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JQF 13-655