Save
Save chapter to my Bookmarks
Cite
Cite this chapter
Print this chapter
Share
Share a link to this chapter
Introduction: Relief, Optics, and Medieval Perspective
Christopher R. Lakey
Description: Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
In a 1998 interview for the journal October, Hubert Damisch made a poignant claim that if we are to assume that perspective has an origin, then we should be able to track its development over time. We could trace perspective through historical stratifications of “perceptual” and “sensory” knowledge, and through permutations of the phenomenal relationships between...
Author
Christopher R. Lakey
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Christopher R. Lakey
Related print edition pages: pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00109.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18051
Chapter subject tags:PerspectiveOpticsArt, RomanesqueVisual perception

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

List of illustrations

Introduction: Relief, Optics, and Medieval Perspective
Previous chapter