The science of art
Subtitle: optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
By: Martin Kemp.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Painting  -- Technique.; Composition (Art); Perspective.; Color in art.; Nature (Aesthetics)
Description: For almost five hundred years the central goal of European painting was the imitation of nature. Many artist and theorists, believing that imitation must be based on scientific principles, found inspiration or guidance in two branches of optics--the geometrical science of perspective and the physical science of colour. In this pathbreaking and highly illustrated book Martin Kemp examines the major optically orientated examples of artistic theory and practice from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 346-364.