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Zusatztext '... casts new light on familiar material ...' Renaissance Quarterly'The main strength of this book lies in Carman's aptitude for close reading! and his keen analyses provide a fresh and nuanced encounter with Alberti's On Painting. Carman also performs thorough inquiries into the meaning of key terms in Alberti's work! such as istoria and nature. ...his sophisticated readings of Alberti's work buttress the view that Renaissance culture was not only interested in that which can be observed in nature! but it also continued the medieval search for the ideal and fixed ontology of reality.' CAA Reviews Informationen zum Autor Charles H. Carman is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Buffalo! USA. Klappentext Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435)! along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus this study reveals a hitherto unsuspected shared epistemology of vision. Analyzing a range of artworks in light of Alberti's and Cusanus's ideals of vision. Zusammenfassung Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus this study reveals a hitherto unsuspected shared epistemology of vision. Analyzing a range of artworks in light of Alberti's and Cusanus's ideals of vision. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations, Preface: Perspectiva ut Poesis, Acknowledgements, 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, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
