The Beholder : The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction, Thomas Frangenberg and Robert Williams; The heritage of Agatharcus: on naturalism and theatre in European painting, David Summers; Opening up Venus: nudity, cruelty and the dream, Georges Didi-Huberman; Michelangelo's works in the eyes of his contemporaries, Hubertus GA¼nther; Bronzino's gaze, Robert Williams; Artist as beholders: drawings after sculptures as a medium and source for the experience of art, Raphael Rosenberg; Giovanni Battista Agucchi's programme for Ludivico Carracci's Erminia among the shepherds, Martina Hansmann; Georges de la Tour: the enigma of the visible, Dalia Judovitz; 'As if...': Pietro Francesco Zanoni on Filippo Gherardi's ceiling in S. Pantaleo, Rome, Thomas Frangenberg; Attention, hand and brush: Condillac and Chardin, Michael Baxandall; The reception of art in the oeuvre of Sir Joshua Reynolds: theory and practice, Giovanna Perini; Bibliography; Index.