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This conference addresses the production and circulation of optical knowledge in workshop and design practices of the visual and decorative arts and (garden) architecture between the fourteenth and seventeenth century. Topics embraced include both the practical optical knowledge produced in the context of artists’ workshops and artists’ appropriation and use of the science of optics (perspectiva), which included questions of psychology, physiology, anatomy, physics, and mathematics, for the production of art and architecture, including gardens. We will discuss the material practices of artists (as diverse as gardeners and goldsmiths) in imitating and representing the effects of light, creating the illusion of space and the shaping of landscape (from the use of paper and other instruments, also on real sites, to experimentation with the optical qualities of pigments and binding media). Other views throw light on artists’ reading of texts on optics and their possible use in the context of the workshop.
Keynote Lecture: Hans Belting
Theory of Perception or Picture Theory? Two Visual Cultures in the History of Perspective
Friday, 12 October 2012
09:00 – 09:20 Sven Dupré & Jeanne Peiffer (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris)
Introductory Remarks
Session I Cultures of Optics and Circulation (chair: Jeanne Peiffer)
09:20 – 09:40 Sven Dupré (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science & Freie Universität, Berlin)
Renaissance Cultures of Optics: An Introduction
09:40 – 10:30 Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard University
Optics and Perspective, and their Transmission through Arabic and Persian Sources
Coffee
Session II Light (chair: Andreas Thielemann)
10:50 – 11:40 Marjolijn Bol, MPIWG, Berlin; Utrecht University
Understanding Light Through Art. Gems, Glass, Glazing and the Artisan’s Contribution to Optical Knowledge, 1300-1600
11:40 – 12:30 Paul Hills, Courtauld Institute, London
The Venetian Optics of Light: Between Transparency and Contre-jour
12:30 – 12:50 Klaus E. Werner, MPIWG, Berlin; Biblioteca Hertziana, MPG, Rome
Presentation: [Perspectiva+]
Lunch
Session III Trecento and Alberti (chair: Wolfgang Lefevre)
13:40 – 14:30 Marvin Trachtenberg, New York University
From Vitruvian Prospectiva Aedificandi to the Euclidean Piazza in Trecento Architectural Theory and Practice
14:30 – 15:20 Peter Scholz, Universität Zürich
Perspective in Late Trecento Paduan Art
15:20 – 16:10 Pietro Roccasecca, Centre of Études Supérieure de la Renaissance, Université François Rabelais, Tours.“Divido in Simile Parte”: Representation of Distance and Quantity in Leon Battista Alberti's De picture
Coffee
Session IV Mathematics and Art (chair: Vincenzo De Risi)
16:30 – 17:20 J.V. Field, Birkbeck, University of London
Perspective and Practice: The Case of Piero della Francesca
17:20 – 18:10 J.B. Shank, University of Minnesota
Fabricating Space in Renaissance Art/Geometry: The Case of Albrecht Dürer
18:30 Keynote Lecture: Hans Belting
Theory of Perception or Picture Theory? Two Visual Cultures in the History of Perspective
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Saturday, 13 October 2012
Session V Leonardo (chair: Sven Dupré)
09:00 – 09:50 Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia
Practical and Theoretical Optics of the Young Leonardo da Vinci
09:50 – 10:40 Dominique Raynaud, Pierre Mendès-France University, Grenoble
A Hitherto Unknown Medieval Disputation on Shadows
Coffee
11:10 – 12:00 David Summers, University of Virginia
Perspective and Chiaroscuro: Alberti, Leonardo and the Craft of Painting
12:00 – 12:50 Mark Smith, University of Missouri
Renaissance Art, Optics, and Theory-Tweaking: The Case of Leonardo
12:50 Lunch
Session VI The Practice of Perspective (chair: Robert Felfe)
14:00 – 14:50 Alexa Greist, Yale University Art Gallery
Demonstrations of Perspective in Italian Printed Drawings Books, 1600-1625
14:50 – 15:40 Ruth Ezra, University of Cambridge
Moxon’s Muscovy Glass: The Practical Perspective (1670) and the Material of Embodied Knowledge in the Milieu of the Royal Society
Coffee
Session VII Gardens and Architecture (chair: Thijs Weststeijn)
16:10 – 17:00 José Calvo-Lopez, Universidad Politécnica de Cartena
Printed Literature and Workshop Practice in Sixteenth‐Century Spain: Perspective Rules and Architectural Interiors in the Libro de Arquitectura by Hernán Ruiz II.
17:00 – 17:50 Georges Farhat, University of Toronto
Some Topographic Innovations and Developments of Perspectival Optics in the Realm of French 17th-century Landscape Architecture
17:50 – 18:00 Closing remarks
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