‘We Penetrate the Earth’s Innards and Search for Riches’: Pliny’s Hierarchy of Materials and Its Influence in the Renaissance

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Chapter 4 ‘We Penetrate the Earth’s Innards and Search for Riches’: Pliny’s Hierarchy of Materials and Its Influence in the Renaissance

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Sarah Blake McHam

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Series: NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History, Volume: 15

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