Book ID: CBB001022902

Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting (2007)

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Summers, David (Author)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: ix + 213 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the relation of the science of optics in ancient Greece and pictorial illusion from Hellenistic times to the present.


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Review Marr, Alexander (2011) Review of "Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 160). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Smith, A. Mark
Darrigol, Olivier
Katsos, Isidoros
Marasy, Mohsen
Zuidervaart, Huib J.
Rijks, Marlise
Concepts
Optics
Science and art
Light
Painters and painting
Color theory
Physics
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
17th century
Early modern
Renaissance
16th century
Places
Greece
Netherlands
Delft (Netherlands)
Italy
Europe
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
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