Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance : the legacy of the natural history /
McHam, Sarah Blake.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Pliny, the Elder
Pliny, the Elder.
Art, Renaissance
Aesthetics, Renaissance.
Aesthetics, Italian.