Sight and spirituality in early Netherlandish painting /
Examines the importance of vision as a narrative and thematic concern in works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Roger van der Weyden. Bret Rothstein argues that their paintings invited the viewer to demonstrate a variety of mental skills. Depicting religious visual experience, t...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Forms of interest.
- Picturing vision.
- The imagination of imagelessness.
- The devotional image as social ornament.
- Senses of painterly strength.
- Epilogue: Notes on the rise of visual skill.