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THE SENSATION OF LOOKING: PERSPECTIVE, OPTICALITY, VERMEER

THE SENSATION OF LOOKING

 

 

1          Japanese woodblock print, my collection

2          Moghul miniature painting, my collection

3          Visual cues of depth showing a vanishing point

4          Students obeying the laws of perspective, Compton Verney, September, 2007

5          Lawrence Wright, cited text

6          The Master of the Barbareni Panels, The Annunciation, c. 1450

7          Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano, c.1445

8          Paolo Uccello, Perspective Study of a Chalice, 1430-1440

9          Glenn Dean, Hollywood Star Ready To Go, n.d

10        Andrea Mantegna, The Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, 1473

11         Raphael, Expulsion of Heliodorus, Stanza d’Eliodoro, Vatican, Rome, 1512

12        Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi, 1573

13        Parmigianino, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1523-24

14        Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434

15        Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, with diagrammatic perspectives

16        Michelangelo, cited text

17        The Limbourg Brothers, October, from Les Très Riches Heures, c.1415

18        Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, detail

19        Marinus Van Reymerswaele, Two Tax Gatherers, 1530?

20        Albrecht Altdorfer, Battle of Alexander, 1529

21        Jan Chrisaenz Micker, View of Amsterdam, n.d.

22       Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, detail

23        Jan Vermeer, The Artist in his Studio, c. 1666

24        Jan Vermeer, Maidservant Pouring Milk, c.1660

25        Jan Vermeer, Maidservant Pouring Milk, detail

26        Jan Vermeer, Head of a Girl with a Pearl Earring, c.1665

27        Jan Vermeer, Head of a Girl with a Pearl Earring, detail, black-and-white

28        Book jacket of Tracy Chevalier’s novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Harper Collins, 2001

29        Paul Kilsby, Ruby as Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2004

30        Johann Zahn, Camera Obscura Portabilis, 1685

31        Leonardo da Vinci, cited text, c. 1500

32        Descartes, from La Dioptrique, 1637 (ox eye experiment)

33        Athanasius Kircher, Large Portable Camera Obscura, 1646

34        Jan Vermeer, Girl Asleep at a Table, 1656

35        Jan Vermeer, Girl Asleep at a Table, 1656, black and white

36        Jan Vermeer, Girl in a Red Hat, c. 1667

37        Jan Vermeer, Girl in a Red Hat, detail

38        Titian, Rape of Europa, 1559-62 (detail)

39        Titian, Rape of Europa, 1559-62

40       Jan Vermeer, View of Delft, c. 1660 (detail)

41        Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, 1892

42        Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, 1892

43        Jan Vermeer, The Lacemaker, c.1665

44       Jan Vermeer, The Lacemaker, c. 1665, black and white

45        Geoges Seurat, Broderie: La mère de l’artist, 1882-83

46       Paul Kilsby,   After Vermeer, 2003, (platinum photographic print)

47        After Vermeer, Hooper’s Gallery, London, 2006

 

 

Recommended reading:

 

Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing, Pelican, 1983

David Hockney, A Secret History, 2002 (and video)

Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pear Earring, Harper Collins, 2001