Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik (Mar 2021)
„Allseitig“ Denken. Das Thema des dreidimensionalen Sehens bei Nikolaus von Kues, Jan van Eyck und Leonardo da Vinci
Abstract
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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