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Author Reeves, Eileen Adair.

Title Painting the heavens : art and science in the age of Galileo / Eileen Reeves
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description x, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations(some color) ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: The Artist and the Astronomer -- Ch. 1. 1599-1602: First Reflections on the Moon's Secondary Light -- Ch. 2. 1604-1605: Neostoicism and the New Star -- Ch. 3. 1605-1607: Mutual Illumination -- Ch. 4. 1610-1612: In the Shadow of the Moon -- Ch. 5. 1614-1621: The Buen Pintor of Seville
Summary The remarkable astronomical discoveries made by Galileo with the new telescope in 1609-1610 led to his famous disputes with philosophers and religious authorities, most of whom found their doctrines threatened by his evidence for Copernicus's heliocentric universe. In this book, Eileen Reeves brings an art-historical perspective to this story as she explores the impact of Galileo's heavenly observations on painters of the early seventeenth century
Analysis Arte moderno Siglos XVII-XVIII Europa
Arte y ciencia Europa Historia Siglo XVII
Astronomía en el arte
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-302) and index
Subject Art and science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Astronomy in art.
Painting, European -- 17th century.
Painting, European.
Painting, Modern -- 17th century -- Europe.
Painting, Modern -- 17th century -- Europe.
Painting, Modern -- 18th century -- Europe.
Painting, Modern -- 18th century -- Europe.
LC no. 96051631
ISBN 0691009767
0691043981 (cloth : acid-free paper)