What is Islamic Art

lights and a definite position of center in space and in a definite place in respect to the observer. Each painter, endowed with ...

Brunelleschi’s namecorresponds to the moment of the inversion of practical interest into theoretical interest which was, for Hus ...

translation of the work. Still widely read in the seventeenth century, it informed Johannes Kepler’sAstronomiae pars optica(The ...

Man. The suppression of the potentially revolutionary multiperspectival- ism implicit in the roots of perspectival thought trans ...

Figure 28Jean Pèlerin, Diagram, fromDe artificiali perspectiva, 1521. National Central Library Rome, p. 7 Perspectives on Perspe ...

sight. It produces desire rooted in the eye rather than in the body. Panofsky relates an anecdote about the Florentine artist Pa ...

viewing her through a grid. [Figure 31] An optical device immobilizes him. Through it, he looks toward a perspectival convergenc ...

awkward angle, the viewer enjoys her nudity and the view outside. Ignoring all such pleasures, the artist is reduced to the seei ...

the separation of the senses resulting from an industrial remapping of the body, these comical renditions of perspectival techni ...

Figure 33Abraham Bosse’sManière Universelle de Mr. Desargues pour pratiquer la Perspective par petit-pied, comme le geometral(Pa ...

Silmilar interests inform Abraham Bosse’s Manière universelle de Mr. Desargues pour pratiquer la Perspective par petit-pied, com ...

alternative perspectives of a single universe, taken from the vantage point of each individual Monad.”^26 In contrast to ibn Ara ...

maker/reader could see everything and yet not be seen. From that vantage point, the map maker/reader is at a precisely defined d ...

printmaking technologies to create a fantasy rooted in ancient monuments depicted as the only true Egypt, and thus depicting Fre ...

given to this sign,”transformed perspective into a symbol for Western civilization that enables the modern worldview:“The arbitr ...

reflective evaluation. In this framework, perspectivalism enables the religi- osity once embodied in artwork to become a mere su ...

Western scientific tradition may have only been made possible by Cartesian perspectivalism or its complement, the Baconian art o ...

evidence of our own senses? If perspective models reason, and is an artifice, then is reason an artifice as well? Perspectival i ...

Panofsky’s periodization of perspective as a single line of progress ignores the existence of non-Western cultures in which pers ...

dark room of the mind, likened to judicial chambers, where the under- standing of manfinds images lying around. Similarly, Desca ...