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Vision and Its Instruments:

Art, Science, and Technology in Early Modern Europe
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A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction, Alina Payne

I. Epistemic Images

1 Epistemic Images, Lorraine Daston

2 Drawing as an Instrument of Knowledge: The Case of Conrad Gessner, Sachiko Kusukawa

3 Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science, Catherine Wilson

II. Seeing the Unseeable

4 Leonardo’s Point, Frank Fehrenbach

5 Beyond the Eye: Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture, Alina Payne

6 Dante’s Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing: Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy, Gerhard Wolf

7 The Invisible Element in Art: Dürer, Shakespeare, Donne, Carla Mazzio

III. The Painter’s Brush and the Mind’s Eye

8 “Art on the Tip of the Brush”: A Blind Manœuvre? Reflections on Correggio’s Brush, Arent de Gelder’s Spatula, and Pietro Testa’s Figure of Practice, Nicola Suthor

9 White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting: Still Life and Baroque Color Theory, Karin Leonhard

10 Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art, Claudia Swan

IV. Looking Back: From Photography and Film to Alberti

11 Sculpture Before Photography, Michael Cole

12 From Alberti’s Finestra Aperta to Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Avatars of the Scopic Drive in Painting and Film, Victor I. Stoichita

List of Contributors

Index


“I would recommend that anyone interested in the nexus between art and science in the early modern period look at this collection and admire and delight in the challenges these essays provide.”

—Judith Collard, Parergon

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