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Verona cathedral, west facade

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Description: Verona cathedral, west facade
TitleVerona cathedral, west facade
Creator nameUnknown
Creator nationality/cultureUnknown
Creator roleArchitect
Creation datec. 1138
Object typeArchitecture
MaterialsUnknown
DimensionsUnknown
LocationVerona Cathedral, Verona, Italy
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsPorchesArchitecture, Medieval
StatusCentral portal at about 30 feet from the portal
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4. Optical Aesthetics and the Problem of Looking Right
Christopher R. Lakey
Description: Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
The passage cited in the epigraph describes a series of relations between observers and objects in terms of a set of sightlines. The author—thought until the fifteenth century to have been Cicero—investigated what I call “optical aesthetics,” articulations of visible...
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Christopher R. Lakey
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Christopher R. Lakey
Related print edition pages: pp.120-150
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00109.008
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18055&redirecttoanchor=31621
Chapter subject tags:Optical artMnemonicsProportion (Art)Naturalism in art

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