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Seeing Renaissance Glass: Art, Optics, and Glass of Early Modern Italy, 1250-1425

Seeing Renaissance Glass: Art, Optics, and Glass of Early Modern Italy, 1250-1425

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryCrafts GeneralSculpture & Installation

ISBN10: 143314834X
ISBN13: 9781433148347
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 17 2018
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed early modern optical technology and visuality. It also significantly influenced contemporaneous art, religion, and science. References to glass are found throughout the Bible and in medieval hagiography and poetry. For instance, glass is mentioned in descriptions of Heavenly Jerusalem, the Beatific Vision, and the Incarnation. At the same time, a well-known Islamic scientific treatise, which likened a portion of the eye's anatomy to glass, entered the scientific circles of the Latin West. Amidst this complex web of glass-related phenomena early modern Italian artists used glass in some of their most important artworks but, until now, no study has offered a comprehensive consideration of the important role glass played in shaping the art of the Italian Renaissance.

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