The Mirror of Art: Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture

by Genevieve Warwick

One of the key pictorial developments of Renaissance art was a conceptualisation of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The idea of painting as specular was argued in Renaissance art theory, demonstrated in art practice, and represented in painting itself. Both within the artist's workshop and within pictorial representation, the mirror-image became the instrument, the emblem, and the conceptual definition of what a painting was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009448803
• ISBN13: 9781009448802
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 3.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.8" x 11.1"