The science of art : optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat / Martin Kemp.

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Kemp, Martin.

Title & Author:

The science of art : optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat / Martin Kemp.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990.

Description:

viii, 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-364) and index.
INTRODUCTION ---- PART I: LINES OF SIGHT. Introduction to Part I --- 1. Perspective from Brunelleschi to Leonardo --- 2. Perspective from Dürer to Galileo --- 3. Perspective from Rubens to Turner ---- PART II: MACHINE AND MIND. Introduction to Part II --- 4. Machines and marvels --- 5. Seeing, knowing and creating ---- PART III: THE COLOUR OF LIGHT. Introduction to Part III --- 6. The Aristotelian legacy --- 7. Newton and after --- Colour plates --- Coda ---- APPENDIX I. EXPLANATION OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE --- APPENDIX II. BRUNELLESCHI'S DEMONSTRATION PANELS.

Summary:

For almost five hundred years the central goal of European painting was the imitation of nature. Many artist and theorists, believing that imitation must be based on scientific principles, found inspiration or guidance in two branches of optics--the geometrical science of perspective and the physical science of colour. In this pathbreaking and highly illustrated book Martin Kemp examines the major optically orientated examples of artistic theory and practice from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.

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ISBN:

0300043376
9780300043372
0300052413
9780300052411

Subject:

Brunelleschi, Filippo 1377-1446
Literaturgruppe Perspektive
Painting Technique.
Composition (Art)
Perspective.
Color in art.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Art and science.
Couleur dans l'art.
Nature (Esthétique)
Peinture Technique.
composition (artistic arrangement)
Farbenlehre
Kunst
Malerei
Maltechnik
Optik
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
Beeldende kunsten.
Perspectief.
Kleuren.
Barwy a malarstwo (szt.plast.)
Perspektive.
Paintings Techniques
Europe

Holdings:

Location: Library main 54951
Call No.: ID:90-B3507
Status: Available

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