Vision and Its Instruments

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