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Early Optics and Perspective through Microscopic Lenses
This Working Group chapter extended the themes of "cultures of optical knowledge" and "perspective practices" to pre-Renaissance contexts, and conduct
An Unknown Treatise on Shadows Referred to by Leonardo Da Vinci
This Working Group chapter project was an exploration of the optical sources used by Leonardo da Vinci in his research on shadows. As most sources of
Divido in Simile Parte: Representation of Distance and Quantity in Leon Battista Alberti’s "De pictura"
Art history textbooks state that the first mathematically exact procedure used to construct perspective was invented by Filippo Brunelleschi in Floren
From the Vitruvian Prospectiva Aedificandi to the Euclidean Piazza in Trecento. Architectural Theory and Practice
This project developed certain ideas first explored in Dominion of the Eye. It studied the appropriation of the ancient/medieval science of optics in
Extracting Knowledge from Optical Artifacts: On Mydorge’s Experiments
Claude Mydorge (1585–1647) is a remarkable figure closely linked into the intellectual circle around Mersenne and Descartes. Educated by the Jesuits a
Alhacen volgare
The De li aspecti (Codex Vat. Lat. 4595) is an Italian translation of the De aspectibus, which is a Latin translation of Ibn al-Haytam’s Kitab al-Mana
Perspectiva+ Website, Perspectiva+
Color in Nature and Color in Art
"For the causes and essences of color are as disputed, and obscure to the intellect, as they are themselves manifest to sight."
(Julius Caesar Scalig
Color Does Matter
This project concentrated on Baroque color theory and practice in the histories of art and science. It was based upon a cross-border cooperation betwe
Publications, Leonhard, Karin: "Painted Poison. Venomous Beasts, Herbs, Gems, and Baroque Colour Theory. " Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboeck (NKJ) (2011)
Color, Vision, and the Eye in Late Sixteenth-Century Padua
Questions surrounding the origin of color, its relationship to light and illumination, and how color affected the eye were vigorously debated within t
Chromatic Variations: Early Modern Practices of Color
This project investigated the development and transmission of color-altering technologies in the early modern Atlantic world, working with B