The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry : : Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution /

The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry : : Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution / / Samuel Y. Edgerton.

This ambitious book explores the relationship between the Western "scientific revolution" that began with Galileo in the early seventeenth century and the Renaissance "artistic revolution" inaugurated by Giotto three hundred years earlier.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Edgerton, Samuel Y.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1994
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 130 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Geometry, Renaissance Art, and Western Culture
  • 1. Sicut haec figura docet: Conceptualizing the Third Dimension in Early Medieval Picture Making
  • 2. Geometrization of Pictorial Space: The Master of the Second Painted Modillion Border at Assisi
  • 3. Geometrization of the Supernatural: Fra Lippo Lippi's London Annunciation
  • 4. Geometrization of Terrestrial Space: Inventing Pictorial Conventions
  • 5. Image and Word in Sixteenth-Century Printed Technical Books
  • 6. Geometrization of Heavenly Space: Raphael's Disputa
  • 7. Geometrization of Astronomical Space: Galileo, Florentine Disegno, and the "Strange Spottednesse" of the Moon
  • 8. Geometry and Jesuits in the Far East
  • EPILOGUE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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