Hendrix, John.

Renaissance theories of vision [electronic resource] / edited by John Shannon Hendrix and Charles H. Carman. - Surrey, U.K., England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2010. - x, 245 p. - Visual culture in early modernity . - Visual culture in early modernity. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / John S. Hendrix and Charles H. Carman -- Classical optics and the perspectivae traditions leading to the Renaissance / Nader El-Bizri -- Meanings of perspective in the Renaissance : tensions and resolution / Charles Carman -- Criminal vision in early modern Florence : Fra Angelico's altarpiece for "Il Tempio" and the Magdalenian gaze / Allie Terry -- Donatello's Chellini Madonna, light, and vision / Amy R. Bloch -- Perception as a function of desire in the Renaissance / John Hendrix -- Leonardo da Vinci's theory of vision and creativity : the Uffizi Annunciation / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- At the boundaries of sight : the Italian Renaissance cloud putto / Christian Kleinbub -- Gesture and perspective in Raphael's School of Athens / Nicholas Temple -- Seeing and the transfer of spirits in early modern art theory / Thijs Weststeijn -- "All in him selfe as in a glass he sees" : mirrors and vision in the Renaissance / Faye Tudor -- "Nearest the tangible earth" : Rembrandt, Samuel van Hoogstraten, George Berkeley, and the optics of touch / Alice Crawford Berghof.


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Visual perception--History.
Vision--History.
Perspective--History.
Art--Philosophy.
Art, Renaissance.


Electronic books.

N7430.5 / .H46 2010eb

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