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Ophthalmology --- Painting --- iconography --- eyes [animal components]

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Art --- History --- optics --- eyes [animal components] --- Leonardo da Vinci

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Iconography --- Art --- art [discipline] --- photography [process] --- religions [belief systems, cultures] --- memory [psychological concept] --- eyes [animal components] --- Boltanski, Christian --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- France

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The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes worn as brooches or pendants that were exchanged as tokens of affection by lovers or family members. Growing out of the cult of sentimentality, the vogue for eye portraits was short-lived, and by the early 1800s eye miniat.ures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these trinkets in *Treasuring the Gaze*, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye portraits-and their abrupt disappearance-reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision that has vanished from our view.

Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gaston Bachelard, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering patterns of looking and strategies for showing that have remained unseen. By looking back at their viewers, eye protraits articulate the operation of our gaze not as a mere reflection of what we see or how we see it, but by producing us, as viewing subjects, against the spectacle of the world. Always returning the looks they receive, eye portraits create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Weaving in stories about eye miniatures -including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of Lord Byron's mesmerizing gaze, and the loss and longing incorporated in eye miniatures that cry-Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience.
With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, *Treasuring the Gaze* questions the traditional subject-object relationship in art by ultimately showing how painting is meant to see as much as be seen.

miniatures [paintings] --- Painting --- eyes [animal components] --- portraits --- observation --- anno 1700-1799 --- MAD-faculty 20 --- kunst en cultuur --- kunst 18e eeuw --- portretten --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- jewelry --- eye portraits