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Introduction to Art: Design, Context and Meaning
Introduction to Art: Design, Context and Meaning offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four U.S.G. faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications and its many uses. Combining the best elements of both a tradi…
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Seeing Renaissance Glass: Art Optics and Glass of Early Modern Italy 1250–1425
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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