Drawing and the senses : an early modern history / Caroline O. Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, Caroline O., author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drawing, European--17th century.

Drawing, European.

Drawing, Baroque.

Physical Description:

178 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Summary:

A study of drawing and philosophy in artistic practice, important not only for art history but also for literature studies, intellectual history, religious history, history of the book,and history of science. 00Leon Battista Alberti wrote in 'De pictura' (1435) that painting is divine because, ?as they say of friendship, a painting lets the absent be present.? Absence and Presence in Early-Modern Drawing Pedagogy examines this relationship between absent and present objects and subjects in early-modern artistic pedagogy. This book studies the intersections among artistic treatises, natural philosophy and theology from 1400-1700, arguing that drawing pedagogy sought to teach the painting of histories that stimulated in the viewer the sensation of being present before the historical moment, the person, the still life. The manifestation of presence remained not only in the sensation of sight but also in all the sensory perceptions of touch, taste, smell and the sixth sense of sensing, the experience of existence. This book demonstrates the pedagogical means by which artists sought to teach the simulation of presence (and the sensorial perception of absence).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-175) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781909400399

1909400394

OCLC:

951724677