Brunelleschi's egg : nature, art, and gender in Renaissance Italy /
Garrard, Mary D.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2010.
"An Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts book"--Prelim.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Great Mother Nature -- The gendering of nature as female : from prehistory through the Middle Ages -- Nature and art in the Quattrocento : from pupil to equal -- Technology and the mastery of physical nature : Brunelleschi and Alberti -- Genesis and the reproduction of life : Masaccio and Michelangelo -- The rebirth of Venus and the feminization of beauty : Botticelli -- A balance of power : pictorial metaphors for nature in transition -- Nature's special child : Leonardo da Vinci -- The goddess in Arcady : Giorgione -- Art and nature in the Cinquecento : from competitor to master -- Love and death in Venice : Titian -- Art against nature : Raphael, the early Mannerists, and late Michelangelo -- Natura bound : the later Tuscan Mannerists -- Epilogue.
Feminism and art.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Philosophy of nature
Renaissance