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The Mirror of Art : Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture / Genevieve Warwick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warwick, Genevieve, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting--Psychological aspects.
- Painting.
- Painting, Italian--15th century.
- Painting, Italian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 417 pages) : digital, PDF file(s), color illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Genevieve Warwick brings a dual focus between art-making and art-viewing through an exploration of the early modern elision of the picture plane with the mirror-image. She considers the specular configuration of Renaissance painting from various thematic points of view and offers a fully interdisciplinary analysis of the mirror analogy
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Mirror of Narcissus
- Notes
- Chapter 1 Halls of Mirrors
- I. Versailles
- The Mirror of Princes
- Mirror Manufactures
- Speculum
- II. The Art of the Mirror
- The Mirror Artefact
- The Myrrour of the World
- Psyche's Mirror
- Halls of Mirrors
- Chapter 2 Armorial Mirrors
- Schilderkunst
- Brunelleschi's Mirror
- The Goldsmith's Art
- Armorial Arts
- Speculum sine macula
- Achilles' Shield
- Painting by fides
- Chapter 3 The Artist's Mirror
- The Optical Mirror
- 'How the mirror is the master of painters'
- The Practice of Mimesis
- Fatto al specchio
- Salón de los Espejos
- Chapter 4 Specular Sciences
- Natural Magic
- Chambers of Vision
- Anamorphosis
- Theatrum catoptricum
- Perspectyfkas
- Chapter 5 The Mirrors of Venus
- The Toilet of Venus
- Pictura poesis
- Veneralia
- Arts of Love
- Domestic Arts
- Marian Mirrors
- Vanitas
- Valiant Mirrors
- Mirrors of Prudence
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on November 29, 2024).
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009448796
- 100944879X
- 9781009448833
- 1009448838
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