Vision and its instruments : art, science, and technology in early modern Europe
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"A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value"-- Full description
Table of Contents:
- Epistemic Images
- Epistemic Images / Lorraine Daston
- Drawing as an Instrument of Knowledge: The Case of Conrad Gessner / Sachiko Kusukawa
- Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science / Catherine Wilson
- Seeing the Unseeable
- Leonardo's Point / Frank Fehrenbach
- Beyond the Eye: Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture / Alina Payne
- Dante's Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing: Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy / Gerhard Wolf
- The Invisible Element in Art: Dè€urer, Shakespeare, Donne / Carla Mazzio.
- The Painter's Brush and the Mind's Eye
- "Art on the Tip of the Brush": A Blind Man¶uvre? Reflections on Correggio's Brush, Arent de Gelder's Spatula, and Pietro Testa's Figure of Practice / Nicola Suthor
- White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting: Still Life and Baroque Color Theory / Karin Leonhard
- Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art / Claudia Swan
- Looking Back: From Photography and Film to Alberti
- Sculpture Before Photography / Michael Cole
- From Alberti's Finestra Aperta to Hitchcock's Rear Window: Avatars of the Scopic Drive in Painting and Film / Victor I. Stoichita.