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schetsboek --- optical instruments --- Canaletto

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spectacles [eyeglasses] --- optical instruments --- canons [clergy] --- Eyck, van, Jan

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painting techniques --- genre pictures --- genre painters --- camera obscuras --- optical instruments --- Vermeer, Johannes

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This volume examines the intersections between material and metaphorical mirrors in medieval and early modern culture. Mirrors have always fascinated humankind. They collapse ordinary distinctions, making visible what is normally invisible, and promising access to hidden realities. Yet, these liminal objects also point to the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom. In this interdisciplinary volume, specialists in medieval and early modern science, cultural and political history, as well as art history, philosophy, and literature come together to explore the intersections between material and metaphysical mirrors in Europe and the Islamic world. During the time periods studied here, various technologies were transforming the looking glass as an optical device, scientific instrument, and aesthetic object, making it clearer and more readily available, though it remained a rare and precious commodity. While technical innovations spawned new discoveries and ways of seeing, belief systems were slower to change, as expressed in the natural sciences, mystical writings, literature, and visual culture. Mirror metaphors based on analogies established in the ancient world still retained significant power and authority, perhaps especially when related to Aristotelian science, the medieval speculum tradition, religious iconography, secular imagery, Renaissance Neoplatonism, or spectacular Baroque engineering, artistry, and self-fashioning. Mirror effects created through myths, metaphors, rhetorical strategies, or other devices could invite self-contemplation and evoke abstract or paradoxical concepts. Whether faithful or deforming, specular reflections often turn out to be ambivalent and contradictory: sometimes sources of illusion, sometimes reflections of divine truth, mirrors compel us to question the very nature of representation.

History of civilization --- specular reflection --- mirrors --- Symbolism --- Mirrors --- Mirrors in literature --- History --- Aberration, Chromatic and spherical --- Looking-glasses --- Furniture --- Optical instruments --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols --- 930.85.42 --- 930.85.44 --- 930.85.44 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- cultuurgeschiedenis

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An inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, Devices of Wonder explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception.The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurking in state-of-the art technology. Featured in Devices of Wonder are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, vues d'optique, microscopes, magnetic games, magic lanterns,camera obscuras, boxes by Joseph Cornell, Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room, Suzanne Anker's Zoosemiotics, Mark Tilden's UniBug 3.1, panoramic works by Jeff Wall and Giovanni Lusieri, paintings by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Joseph Wright of Derby, projections by Diana Thater and James Turrell, and apop-up book by Kara Walker.Barbara Stafford's introduction weaves these fascinating artifacts into a provocative narrative analyzing the complex links between old and new media. Her wide-ranging investigation is complemented by thirty-one short essays in which Frances Terpak tracks the often surprising connections amongindividual items. Like the cabinet of curiosities, Devices of Wonder functions as an analogical instrument, reframing the beautiful "eye machines" that continue to mediate our encounters with the world.

History --- perception --- geschiedenis --- waarneming --- history [discipline] --- optische instrumenten --- photography [process] --- fotografie --- wetenschappelijke instrumenten --- Photography --- Art --- Kunst en technologie ; visuele waarneming ; optische instrumenten --- 7.017 --- (069) --- Kunst ; optische effecten, perspectief, illusie --- (Musea. Collecties) --- visual perception --- Art and technology --- Optical instruments --- Visual perception --- Optics --- Physical instruments --- Instruments --- Technology and art --- Technology --- Exhibitions --- CDL --- 7.03 --- Computergrafiek --- Artificiële intelligentie --- Machinaal leren