The science of art
optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
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Word Count
93,750 words, Guess
Page Count
375 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18365871M
- ISBN-100300043376
- OCLC Control Number18832748
- OCLC Control Numberscienceofartopti0000kemp
- Library of Congress Control Number88033767
and 2 more
- LibraryThing177596
- Goodreads3805244
Classifications
- DDC750/.1/8
- LCCND1475 .K46 1990
Description
For almost five hundred years the central goal of European painting was the imitation of nature. Many artist and theorists, believing that imitation must be based on scientific principles, found inspiration or guidance in two branches of optics--the geometrical science of perspective and the physical science of colour. In this pathbreaking and highly illustrated book Martin Kemp examines the major optically orientated examples of artistic theory and practice from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.
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