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Zusatztext '...The Beholder is a stimulating exploration of the role of the viewer that reminds us that what the beholder brings to the experience of art changes through time and is always affected by the receiver's culture.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This is an excellent collection. ...Overall! the volume should be well received and sought after by all serious students and researchers in the field of art history. No library should be without this volume.' Sixteenth Century Journal Informationen zum Autor Thomas Frangenberg is Lecturer at Leicester University, UK. Robert Williams is Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Klappentext Addressing the experience of art in early modern Europe and approaching it from methodological perspectives! this book includes concerns that range from the relation between its perceptual and significative dimensions to the ways in which its discursive formation anticipates! but does not exactly correspond to notions of 'aesthetic' experience. Zusammenfassung Addressing the experience of art in early modern Europe and approaching it from methodological perspectives, this book includes concerns that range from the relation between its perceptual and significative dimensions to the ways in which its discursive formation anticipates, but does not exactly correspond to notions of 'aesthetic' experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction! Thomas Frangenberg and Robert Williams; The heritage of Agatharcus: on naturalism and theatre in European painting! David Summers; Opening up Venus: nudity! cruelty and the dream! Georges Didi-Huberman; Michelangelo's works in the eyes of his contemporaries! Hubertus Günther; Bronzino's gaze! Robert Williams; Artist as beholders: drawings after sculptures as a medium and source for the experience of art! Raphael Rosenberg; Giovanni Battista Agucchi's programme for Ludivico Carracci's Erminia among the shepherds! Martina Hansmann; Georges de la Tour: the enigma of the visible! Dalia Judovitz; 'As if...': Pietro Francesco Zanoni on Filippo Gherardi's ceiling in S. Pantaleo! Rome! Thomas Frangenberg; Attention! hand and brush: Condillac and Chardin! Michael Baxandall; The reception of art in the oeuvre of Sir Joshua Reynolds: theory and practice! Giovanna Perini; Bibliography; Index. ...
