Upload
temima
View
33
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Mapping Angels. The conversion of kingdoms and territories by the Jesuits ( Regnorum & provinciarum per Societatem conversio ). Moretus , Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1640). Paolo Uccello, Chalice in Perspective. Leon Battista Alberti , Della Pittura (On Painting) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
Mapping Angels
The conversion of kingdoms and territories by the Jesuits (Regnorum & provinciarum per Societatem conversio)
Moretus, Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1640)
Paolo Uccello, Chalice in Perspective
Leon Battista Alberti, Della Pittura (On Painting)
1435 (Latin) / 1436 (Italian)
-perspective as a tool to construct a proper ISTORIA
-links perspectival painting to rhetoric and geometry
-elevate the status of artists and the visual arts
-both an intellectual and scientific basis for painting
-perspective as a form of inquiry—evidence of the human ability to command knowledge of the world
Illustration of Brunelleschi’s experiment . 1420s.
.
Florence Cathedral. 1296-1436.
Illustration of Brunelleschi’s experiment . 1420s.
Illustration of Brunelleschi’s experiment . 1420s.
Hans Holbein. The Ambassadors. 1533.
Jean François Niceron, A chair in regular perspective, La Perspective Curieuse. Paris, 1651
Q=vanishing pointR=distance point
Jean François Niceron, A chair in anamorphic perspective, La Perspective Curieuse. Paris, 1651.
Raphael, School of Athens (1509-11)
La Disputa
Separation of Light from DarknessSistine Ceiling, 1508-12
Creation of Sun and Moon and Planets
Raphael, Sistine
Madonna, 1513
Andrea Pozzo,Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work, 1691-94
Fresco. Sant'Ignazio, Rome
The conversion of kingdoms and territories by the Jesuits (Regnorum & provinciarum per Societatem conversio)
Jan Porcellis, Shipping in Stormy Seas, c. 1630