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Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books)
Brunelleschi's Egg Nature Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy - Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books
Author: Mary D. Garrard
Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of nature--from an organic worldview to the scientific--was assisted by the gender metaphor that defined nature as female. In this provocative and groundbreaking book, Mary D. Garrard extends this analysis to the histor...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520261525
ISBN-10: 0520261526
Publication Date: 11/5/2010
Pages: 448
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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