Nature and Art in the Renaissance | cabinet

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Introduction: nature and art

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Painting and perspective: craft, art and science

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The artist-engineer: architecture, machines, and the ‘Renaissance man’

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Modelling the heavens? Astronomical instruments and mechanical clocks

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Geography and cartography: old methods recovered, new worlds discovered

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New worlds, new species, new cures: discovery, natural history, and medicine

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Representing and reproducing nature: painting, illustration, engraving

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Collecting art and nature: cabinets of curiosities

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Controlling nature through art: alchemy

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Clone of New worlds, new species, new cures: discovery, natural history, and medicine

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