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Refiguring the real : picture and modernity in word and image, 1400-1700 /
In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture-particularly literature, philosophy, religion, and science. Because critics have...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1993.
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| Colección: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture-particularly literature, philosophy, religion, and science. Because critics have conventionally explained visual images in terms of verbal texts (Scripture, heroic poetry, and myth), they have undervalued the impact of the pictorial naturalism practiced by painters from the fifteenth century onward and the fundamentally new conception of reality it conveys. By reinterpreting m. |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400872756 1400872758 0691069573 9780691069579 |