Charles H. Carman

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus (eBook, ePUB)

Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus this study reveals a hitherto unsuspected shared epistemology of vision. Analyzing a range of artworks in light of Alberti's and Cusanus's ideals of vision, the author attributes a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is typically accorded to Alberti, and adds a new dimension to our understanding of theories of vision in the Italian Renaissance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317105725
• Artikelnr.: 49366351

Autorenporträt

Charles H. Carman is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Buffalo, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface: Perspectiva ut Poesis
Acknowledgements
1. Alberti and Cusanus: An Overview
2. On Painting: Setting the Stage and "Tutta la Storia"
3. The Eye of the Mind: Where it Goes
What it Sees
4. Divine and Human Vision: Perspective and the Coincidence of Opposites
5. Disclosing Metaphors 1: Ways into Perspective
6. Disclosing Metaphors 2: The Window
The Flower
and The Map
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index