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Art, Classical --- Art, Classical --- Art antique --- Art antique --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Histoire --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Histoire --- Jacobsen, Carl Christian Hilmann, --- Helbig, Wolfgang, --- Ny Carlsberg glyptotek

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Art, Classical --- Art restorers --- Classicists --- Philosophy, Modern --- Study and teaching --- History --- Requeno y Vives, Vicente, --- Philosophy. --- Societas Jesu

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The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully, intuitively arranged some thousand black-and-white photographs of classical and Renaissance art objects, as well as of astrological and astronomical images ranging from ancient Babylon to Weimar Germany. Here and there, he also included maps, manuscript pages, and contemporary images taken from newspapers. Trying through these constellations of images to make visible the many polarities that fueled antiquity's afterlife, Warburg envisioned the Atlas as a vital form of metaphoric thought.While the nondiscursive, frequently digressive character of the Atlas complicates any linear narrative of its themes and contents, Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels. By drawing on Warburg's published and unpublished writings and by attending to Warburg's cardinal idea that "pathos formulas" structure the West's cultural memory, Johnson maps numerous tensions between word and image in the Atlas. In addition to examining the work itself, he considers the literary, philosophical, and intellectual-historical implications of the Atlas. As Johnson demonstrates, the Atlas is not simply the culmination of Warburg's lifelong study of Renaissance culture but the ultimate expression of his now literal, now metaphoric search for syncretic solutions to the urgent problems posed by the history of art and culture.

Memory in art. --- Metaphor in art. --- Art, Renaissance --- Art, Classical --- Art criticism --- Renaissance art --- Classical art --- Classical antiquities --- Influence. --- History --- Warburg, Aby,

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"The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully, intuitively arranged some thousand black-and-white photographs of classical and Renaissance art objects, as well as of astrological and astronomical images ranging from ancient Babylon to Weimar Germany. Here and there, he also included maps, manuscript pages, and contemporary images taken from newspapers. Trying through these constellations of images to make visible the many polarities that fueled antiquity's afterlife, Warburg envisioned the Atlas as a vital form of metaphoric thought. While the nondiscursive, frequently digressive character of the Atlas complicates any linear narrative of its themes and contents, Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels. By drawing on Warburg's published and unpublished writings and by attending to Warburg's cardinal idea that "pathos formulas" structure the West's cultural memory, Johnson maps numerous tensions between word and image in the Atlas. In addition to examining the work itself, he considers the literary, philosophical, and intellectual-historical implications of the Atlas. As Johnson demonstrates, the Atlas is not simply the culmination of Warburg's lifelong study of Renaissance culture but the ultimate expression of his now literal, now metaphoric search for syncretic solutions to the urgent problems posed by the history of art and culture."--Publisher's Web site.

philosophy of art --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Warburg, Aby --- Art criticism --- Art, Classical --- Art, Renaissance --- Metaphor in art. --- Memory in art. --- History --- Influence. --- Warburg, Aby, --- Memory in art --- Metaphor in art --- Renaissance art --- Classical art --- Classical antiquities --- Influence --- Nachleben

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Linear perspective is a science that represents objects in space upon a plane, projecting them from a point of view. This concept was known in classical antiquity. In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli investigates theories of linear perspective in the classical era. Departing from the received understanding of perspective in the ancient world, he argues that ancient theories of perspective were primarily based on the study of objects in mirrors, rather than the study of optics and the workings of the human eye. In support of this argument, Sinisgalli analyzes, and offers new insights into, some of the key classical texts on this topic, including Euclid's De speculis, Lucretius' De rerum natura, Vitruvius' De architectura and Ptolemy's De opticis. Key concepts throughout the book are clarified and enhanced by detailed illustrations.

Perspective --- Visual perception --- Art, Ancient --- Art, Classical --- Perception visuelle --- Art antique --- History --- Histoire --- Arts and Humanities --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Architectural perspective --- Linear perspective --- Mechanical perspective --- Optics --- Space (Art) --- Space perception --- Projection --- Proportion (Art) --- Shades and shadows --- Psychological aspects