Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik (Mar 2021)

„Allseitig“ Denken. Das Thema des dreidimensionalen Sehens bei Nikolaus von Kues, Jan van Eyck und Leonardo da Vinci

  • Gianluca Cuozzo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-izfk-9d15-edbf
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3
pp. 9 – 34

Abstract

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Alongside the relationship between philosophy and painting, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a speculative interest emerged in the concept of three dimensional vision in Cusa, Jan van Eyck, Marsilio Ficino, and Giorgione da Castelfranco. The visio circularis theme becomes a central metaphor for a new way of thinking and seeing the world, which culminates in Leonardo da Vinci’s studies on perspective. In this context, the mirror forms a dominant theme in the development of the studies and applications of perspective, which becomes in creasingly sensitive to sculptural relief.

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