Research Catalog

Title

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus : towards an epistemology of vision for Italian Renaissance art and culture / by Charles H. Carman.

Author

Carman, Charles H.

Publication

Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]

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Details

Description

xv, 195 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Visual culture in early modernity

Uniform Title

Visual culture in early modernity.

Subject

• Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
• Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464
• Visual perception > History
• Vision
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Renaissance > Italy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.

Contents

1. Alberti and Cusanus: an overview -- 2. On painting: setting the stage and "Tutta la Storia" -- 3. The Eye of the Mind: Where it Goes, What it Sees -- 4. Divine and Human Vision: Perspective and the Coincidence of Opposites -- 5. Disclosing Metaphors 1: Ways into Perspective -- 6. Disclosing Metaphors 2: The Window, The Flower, and The Map.

Call Number

JQE 16-222

ISBN

• 9781472429230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1472429230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781472429247 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472429254 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014012034

OCLC

876370906

Author

Carman, Charles H., author.

Title

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus : towards an epistemology of vision for Italian Renaissance art and culture / by Charles H. Carman.

Publisher

Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Visual culture in early modernity

Visual culture in early modernity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Carman, Charles H. Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing, 2014 9781472429247 9781472429254

Research Call Number

JQE 16-222