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

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 techniqu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Early Modern Studies ; 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of 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