Why did linear perspective rise in trecento-quattrocento central Italy rather than in any other cultural context? This book provides new insight into the question of the early Italian pioneership in perspective, building on the fact that many references to optics can be found in…
Why did linear perspective rise in trecento-quattrocento central Italy rather than in any other cultural context? This book provides new insight into the question of the early Italian pioneership in perspective, building on the fact that many references to optics can be found in…
In this illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of a…
In this illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of a…
by Hendrix, John, Carman, Charles H.
fromVisual culture in early modernity
by Hendrix, John, Carman, Charles H.
fromVisual culture in early modernity
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 product…
by Hendrix, John, Carman, Charles H.
fromVisual culture in early modernity
by Hendrix, John, Carman, Charles H.
fromVisual culture in early modernity
by Hendrix, John, Carman, Charles H.
fromVisual culture in early modernity
by Hendrix, John, Carman, Charles H.
fromVisual culture in early modernity
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 product…
