Painting as a Model of Seeing and Thinking. Interrelations between Painting and Optical Science 1300-1600
International Conference, 18/19 November 2022 Department of Art History, University of Vienna Organizer: Ass. Prof. Dr. Sandra Hindriks
The profound change in the conception of painting that took place at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Early Modern period, both north and south of the Alps, was decisively influenced by the science of optics, the so called perspectiva, which gained great significance in Western thinking from the thirteenth century onwards. In an effort to achieve a new sense of reality and meticulous empirical imitation of nature, artists took up the . . . → En lire plus
