Format:
X, 245 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst
ISBN:
9781409400240
Series Statement:
Visual culture in early modernity
Content:
How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley
Content:
How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [213] - 234
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Hier auch andere, später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Introduction
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Classical optics and the perspectivae traditions leading to the Renaissance
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Meanings of perspective in the Renaissance : tensions and resolution
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Criminal vision in early modern Florence : Fra Angelico's altarpiece for "Il Tempio" and the Magdalenian gaze
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Donatello's Chellini Madonna, light, and vision
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Perception as a function of desire in the Renaissance
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Leonardo da Vinci's theory of vision and creativity : the Uffizi Annunciation
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At the boundaries of sight : the Italian Renaissance cloud putto
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Gesture and perspective in Raphael's School of Athens
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Seeing and the transfer of spirits in early modern art theory
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"All in him selfe as in a glass he sees" : mirrors and vision in the Renaissance
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"Nearest the tangible earth" : Rembrandt, Samuel van Hoogstraten, George Berkeley, and the optics of touch
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409423997
Language:
English
Keywords:
Italien
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Ästhetik
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Visuelle Wahrnehmung
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Perspektive
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Optik
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Geschichte 1400-1700
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