The Mirror of Art

Auteur

Genevieve Warwick is Professor of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. The author of ten books and fifty articles on Renaissance art, from 2012-17 she served as Editor of Art History, the primary British journal for the discipline.

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Genevieve Warwick brings a dual focus between art-making and art-viewing through an exploration of the early modern elision of the picture plane with the mirror-image. She considers the specular configuration of Renaissance painting from various thematic points of view and offers a fully interdisciplinary analysis of the mirror analogy.

Contenu

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: the mirror of narcissus; 1. Halls of mirrors; 2. Armorial mirrors; 3. The artist's mirror; 4. Specular sciences; 5. The mirrors of venus; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.