The heritage of Giotto's geometry : art and science on the eve of the scientific revolution / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.

Main entry:

Edgerton, Samuel Y.

Title & Author:

The heritage of Giotto's geometry : art and science on the eve of the scientific revolution / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.

Description:

x, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.
American Historical Association Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian or Italian-U.S. history, 1992.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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. The fruit of many years of thought and research, it demonstrates the crucial role that Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture played in what we call "modern science." Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., shows that rather than being symptomatic in nature, the arts served as a catalyst for the transformation in perception which occurred in the West in the fourteenth century. According to Edgerton, the new way in which "reality" was represented, through the use of the unique Renaissance tools of perspective and chiaroscuro, set the stage for modern scientific practice.

ISBN:

0801425735 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801425738 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801481988
9780801481987

Subject:

Giotto, 1266?-1337 Themes, motives.
Giotto, 1266?-1337 Thèmes, motifs.
Giotto, 1266?-1337.
Euclides ca. v3. Jh.
Giotto di Bondone 1266-1337
Raffael 1483-1520
Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472
Bacon, Roger 1214-1292
Brunelleschi, Filippo 1377-1446
Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio 1439-1501
Ricci, Ostilio 1540-1603
Giotto, 1266?-1337 Criticism and interpretation.
Giotto, 1266-1337.
Giotto, (1266-1336) Thèmes, motifs.
Giotto (di Bondone)
Literaturgruppe Perspektive
Perspective.
Visual perception.
Space (Art)
Art, Medieval.
Art, Renaissance.
Visual Perception
Geometrische motieven.
Perspectief.
Ruimte (algemeen)
Visuele waarneming.
Perception visuelle.
Espace (Art)
Art médiéval.
Art de la Renaissance.
visual perception.
perspective (technique)
linear perspective (technique)
20.10 art and society: general.
Themes, motives.
Geometrie
Geschichte
Kunst
Malerei
Naturwissenschaften
Renaissance
Rezeption
Perception visuelle Dans l'art.
Espace (art)
Italien
Giotto 1266?-1337 Themes, motives

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Location: Library main 76304
Call No.: ID:92-B505
Status: Available

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