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Seeing Renaissance Glass: Art Optics and Glass of Early Modern Italy 1250–1425
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DILLON, Sarah

With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed early modern optical technology and visuality. It also significantly influenced contemporaneous art, religion, and science. References to glass are found throughout the Bible and in medieval hagiography and poetry. For instance, glass is mentioned in descriptions of Heavenly Jerusalem, the Beatific V…

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700 DIL s