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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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1993.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Una più grassa Minerva: The Origins of Perspective and the Aesthetics of the Incarnation in Alberti's Della pittura
- 2. La verite en peinture: Space, Place, and Truth in Rogier van der Weyden's St. Ivo
- 3. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: The Death of Allegory and the Discovery of the World in the Elder Pieter Bruegel
- 4. A Double-Silvered Glass: Christian Imitation and the "Curious Perspective" in Cervantes's Don Quijote
- 5. Idols of the Mind: Baroque Illusion, Theatrical Persuasion, and the Aesthetics of Iconoclasm in Jan Steen
- 6. The Denuded Muse: The Unmasking of Point of View in the Cartesian Cogito and Vermeer's The Art of Painting
- 7. The Art of Mis/Reading Art: Text, Image, and Modernity in Rembrandt's Philosopher
- 8. Et in Anadia Ego: The End of Ut Pictura and the Invention of the Aesthetic in Nicolas Poussin
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index