Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface and acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Great Mother Nature
6. Chapter One. The Gendering of Nature as Female: From Prehistory through the Middle Ages 9
7. Part II. Nature and Art in the Quattrocento: From Pupil to Equal
8. Chapter Two. Technology and the Mastery of Physical Nature: Brunelleschi and Alberti 33
9. Chapter Three. Genesis and the Reproduction of Life: Masaccio and Michelangelo 54
10. Chapter Four. The Rebirth of Venus and the Feminization of Beauty: Botticelli 89
11. Part III. A Balance of Power: Pictorial Metaphors for Nature in Transition
12. Chapter Five. Nature’s Special Child: Leonardo da Vinci 123
13. Chapter Six. The Goddess in Arcady: Giorgione 156
14. Part IV. Art and Nature in the Cinquecento: From Competitor to Master
15. Chapter Seven. Love and Death in Venice: Titian 193
16. Chapter Eight. Art against Nature: Raphael, the Early Mannerists, and Late Michelangelo 237
17. Chapter Nine. Natura Bound: The Later Tuscan Mannerists 275
18. Epilogue 313
19. Notes 317
20. Bibliography 377
21. Illustrations 407
22. Index 413