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The Passionate Triangle
Rebecca Zorach
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Description for The Passionate Triangle
Hardcover. Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe - the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. This book takes us on a hunt for the triangle's embedded significance. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 colour plates, 86 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 703.
Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe - the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. Renaissance artists, for their part, often used shapes and lines to arrange figures into a triangle on the surface of a painting - a practice modern scholars call triangular composition. But is there secret meaning in the triangular arrangements artists used, or just a pleasing symmetry? What do triangles really tell us about the European Renaissance and its most beguiling works of art? In ... Read more
Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe - the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. Renaissance artists, for their part, often used shapes and lines to arrange figures into a triangle on the surface of a painting - a practice modern scholars call triangular composition. But is there secret meaning in the triangular arrangements artists used, or just a pleasing symmetry? What do triangles really tell us about the European Renaissance and its most beguiling works of art? In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226989396
SKU
V9780226989396
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Ref
99-15
About Rebecca Zorach
Rebecca Zorach is associate professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions, and the Early Modern World.
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