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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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