Refiguring the Real : : Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400-1700 / / Christopher Braider.
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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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 vérité 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 |
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