Main entry:

Braider, Christopher, 1950-

Title & Author:

Refiguring the real : picture and modernity in word and image, 1400-1700 / Christopher Braider.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993.

Description:

xiv, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-295) and index.
Una più grassa Minerva : the origins of perspective and the aesthetics of the incarnation in Alberti's Della pittura -- La vérité en peinture : space, place, and truth in Rogier van der Weyden's St. Ivo -- Landscape with the fall of Icarus : the death of allegory and the discovery of the world in the elder Pieter Bruegel -- A doubled-silvered glass : Christian imitation and the "curious perspective" in Cervantes's Don Quijote -- Idols of the mind : Baroque illusion, theatrical persuasion, and the aesthetics of iconoclasm in Jan Steen -- The denuded muse : the unmasking of point of view in the Cartesian Cogito and Vermeer's The art of painting -- The art of mis/reading art : text, image, and modernity in Rembrandt's Philosopher -- Et in Arcadia ego : the end of Ut pictura and the invention of the aesthetic in Nicolas Poussin -- Conclusion : the poetry of absorption and the ontology of the modern in Lessing, Greuze, and Kant.
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Dust jacket.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0691069573 (acid-free paper)
9780691069579 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
Arts, Medieval.
Arts, Modern.
Ut pictura poesis (Esthétique)
Arts médiévaux.
Arts de la Renaissance Histoire.
Arts 16e siècle Histoire.
ut pictura poesis.
Schilderkunst.
Letterkunde.
Representatie (algemeen)
Art, Renaissance.
Arts, Modern 17th century.
Peinture de la Renaissance.
Peinture 17e siècle.
Arts

Holdings:

Location: Library main 103152
Call No.: ID NX170.B73; ID:94-B1724
Status: Available