The living image in Renaissance art /
Jacobs, Fredrika Herman.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Introduction: the topos of lifelikeness -- The analogical relationship of art and life: concepts and language -- (Dis)assembling: Michelangelo and Marsyas -- Mona Lisa's 'beating pulse' -- Nosce te ipsum: Narcissus, mirrors, and monsters -- The lifeless and the (re)animation of the lifelike.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-260) and index.
Portraits, Renaissance
Art, Italian
Life in art.
Soul in art.
Realism in art.