Sculptural seeing : relief, optics, and the rise of perspective in medieval Italy / Christopher R. Lackey.

Although perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already employing knowledge of optical science, geometry, and theories of vision in shapi...

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Main Author: Lakey, Christopher R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2018]
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505 0 |a Embodied seeing -- The iconology of sight -- The geometry of vision -- Optical aesthetics and the problem of looking right -- Words for relief (rilievo) 
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