Renaissance theories of vision

by Hendrix, John.
Additional authors: Carman, Charles H. | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Visual culture in early modernity Published by : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., (Surrey, U.K., England ; | Burlington, Vt. :) Physical details: x, 245 p. Year: 2010
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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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