Author:
McHam, Sarah Blake.
ImprintNew Haven and London : Yale University Press, [2013]
Descriptionxiii, 450 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Note:The art history of a book on science -- Pliny's career and the scope of the Natural history -- Pliny on ancient art -- Petrarch's Pliny -- Following Petrarch -- Collecting, illuminating, 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 -- Pliny's influence on early sixteenth-century theoretical writers -- Vasari and Pliny as historians of art -- Pliny's influence on theoretical treatises after Vasari -- Pliny's legacy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-434) and index.
