The book illustrates a little-known aspect of the interaction between art and science in the early modern period: the study of fossils by three artists (Leonardo, the French ceramist Bernard Palissy, and the Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla) and the subsequent use, by the scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, of models of artistic origin to study the same phenomenon. Initially attracted by the widespread theory that interpreted fossils not as animal remains, but as stones in which nature, like an artist, imitated animal and plant forms, Leonardo, Palissy and Scilla used empirical-artistic models and knowledge to deny the nature-artist theory and demonstrate the organic origin of fossils. This volume, the first comprehensive analysis of the work of these authors, brings to light the more general evolution of the art-science relationship between the 16th and late 17th centuries and highlights the contribution made by art to one of the key ideas of modernity: the temporality of nature.
Il libro illustra un aspetto poco noto dell'interazione tra arte e scienza nella prima età moderna: lo studio dei fossili in tre artisti (Leonardo, il ceramista francese Bernard Palissy, il pittore siciliano Agostino Scilla) e il conseguente utilizzo, da parte dello scienziato Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, di modelli di origine artistica per studiare lo stesso fenomeno. Attratti inizialmente dalla diffusa teoria che interpretava i fossili non come resti di animali, ma come pietre nelle quali la natura, come un artista, imitava forme animali e vegetali, Leonardo, Palissy e Scilla utilizzarono modelli e saperi empirico-artistici per negare la teoria della natura-artista e dimostrare l'origine organica dei fossili. Il volume, la prima analisi d'insieme dell'opera di questi autori, fa emergere la più generale evoluzione di senso del rapporto arte-scienza tra XVI e tardo XVII secolo ed evidenzia il contributo dato dall'arte ad una delle idee chiave della modernità: la temporalità della natura.
Fossili e artefatti da Leonardo a Leibniz
Domenico Laurenza
2024-01-01
Abstract
The book illustrates a little-known aspect of the interaction between art and science in the early modern period: the study of fossils by three artists (Leonardo, the French ceramist Bernard Palissy, and the Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla) and the subsequent use, by the scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, of models of artistic origin to study the same phenomenon. Initially attracted by the widespread theory that interpreted fossils not as animal remains, but as stones in which nature, like an artist, imitated animal and plant forms, Leonardo, Palissy and Scilla used empirical-artistic models and knowledge to deny the nature-artist theory and demonstrate the organic origin of fossils. This volume, the first comprehensive analysis of the work of these authors, brings to light the more general evolution of the art-science relationship between the 16th and late 17th centuries and highlights the contribution made by art to one of the key ideas of modernity: the temporality of nature.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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