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• Publisher : UNC Press Books
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, this book demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean world correlated

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
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• Release Date : 01 December 2015

Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
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• Release Date : 26 September 2017

This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis and interpretation about the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from Paleolithic to Roman times. Humanistic in

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 December 2016

How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2017

An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subject. Concentrated on works made since 1990, Contemporary Art About Architecture:

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 14 March 2011

This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 16 April 2018

In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 21 July 2014

Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 04 August 2017

What's in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable