Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of GalileoPrinceton University Press, 1997 - 310 էջ The remarkable astronomical discoveries made by Galileo with the new telescope in 1609-10 led to his famous disputes with philosophers and religious authorities, most of whom found their doctrines threatened by his evidence for Copernicus's heliocentric universe. In this book, Eileen Reeves brings an art historical perspective to this story as she explores the impact of Galileo's heavenly observations on painters of the early seventeenth century. Many seventeenth-century painters turned to astronomical pastimes and to the depiction of new discoveries in their work, yet some of these findings imposed controversial changes in their use of religious iconography. For example, Galileo's discovery of the moon's rough topography and the reasons behind its "secondary light" meant rethinking the imagery surrounding the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception, which had long been represented in paintings by the appearance of a smooth, incandescent moon. By examining a group of paintings by early modern artists all interested in Galileo's evidence for a Copernican system, Reeves not only traces the influence of science on painting in terms of optics and content, but also reveals the painters in a conflict between artistic depiction and dogmatic representation. Reeves offers a close analysis of seven works by Lodovico Cigoli, Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco Pacheco, and Diego Velázquez. She places these artists at the center of the astronomical debate, showing that both before and after the invention of the telescope, the proper evaluation of phenomena such as moon spots and the aurora borealis was commonly considered the province of the painter. Because these scientific hypotheses were complicated by their connection to Catholic doctrine, Reeves examines how the relationship between science and art, and their mutual production of knowledge and authority, must themselves be seen in a broader context of theological and political struggle. |
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... comparing the apparent face in the moon to a painting : " In truth , the dark patches submerge beneath the bright ones which they encompass , and confine them , being confined and curtailed by them in turn ; and they are thoroughly ...
... compared the dark and light spots on the moon to the pigment on a painted surface . Some , like Galileo's opponents Lodovico delle Colombe and Giulio Cesare Lagalla , maintained that the apparent roughness of the lunar body were ...
... compared to sunlit clouds , and that these had long been compared to the illusionistic effects of light and dark pig- ments on a canvas meant that seicento writers could and did establish an easy equivalence between painted surfaces ...
... compared favorably , in Gali- leo's view , to a set of engravings lately sent to the grand duke of Tuscany , ones that would eventually be published by Francesco Fontana , a Neapol- itan instrument maker whose telescopes were the most ...
... compared the flaws in either a Ptolemaic or Tychonic world system to the " too bright colors and excessive darkness of the shadows " of a portrait painted without adequate attention to the question of secondary light , implying THE ...
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15991602 First Reflections on the Moons Secondary Light | 23 |
16041605 Neostoicism and the New Star | 57 |
16051607 Mutual Illumination | 91 |
16101612 In the Shadow of the Moon | 138 |
16141621 The Buen Pintor of Seville | 178 |
NOTES | 221 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 277 |
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Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo Eileen Adair Reeves Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1997 |