In 12 essays by a distinguished group of art historians, Art and Technology in Early Modern Europe explores the relationship between artistic and technological advances from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. Provides a broad definition of technology for this period and addresses the influence of technological shifts on the history of early modern art Covers c.1420–1820, the time period between the advent of the printed image and that of the photographically produced image Discusses a wide range of early modern artists tools, instruments, skills, and techniques and their historical applications Highlights a frequently overlooked aspect of research within art history that yields substantial insights into the analysis of the making and viewing of art INDICE: . After Prometheus: Art and Technology in Early Modern Europe (Genevieve Warwick and Richard Taws) . Historians in the Laboratory: Reconstruction of Renaissance Art and Technology in the Making and Knowing Project (Pamela H. Smith and The Making and Knowing Project) . Works in Progress: Painting and Modelling in Seventeenth–Century Holland (Jan Blanc) . Looking in the Mirror of Renaissance Art (Genevieve Warwick) . Squaring the Circle: The Telescopic View in Early Modern Landscapes (Amy Knight Powell) . After Galileo: The Image of Science in Niccolò Tornioli s Astronomers (Giulia Martina Weston) . The Monument to Louis XIV at the Place Vendôme (1699) as a Technical Achievement: A Question of Interest (Etienne Jollet) . A Clock Picture as a Philosophical Experiment: The Tableau Mécanique in the Physics Cabinet of Bonnier de la Mosson (Hanneke Grootenboer) . Of Air Pumps and Teapots: Joseph Wright of Derby, John Singleton Copley and the Technology of Seeing (Bryan J. Wolf) . Technologies of Illusion: De Loutherbourg s Eidophusikon in Eighteenth–Century London (Ann Bermingham) . Telegraphic Images in Post–Revolutionary France (Richard Taws) . Seizing Attention: Devices and Desires (Barbara Maria Stafford) . Index
- ISBN: 978-1-119-29168-8
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés