02830cam a2200325 4500 2793455394 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781433148361 1433148366 B07PPWD275 Amazon 87b6ba59-39e3-45bb-a941-db77320cf396 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5917519 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Dillon, Sarah. Seeing Renaissance Glass [Bridges eBook] : Art, Optics, and Glass of Early Modern Italy, 1250–1425. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Ceramic arts. Pottery. glass. HTML:<p>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 Vision, and the Incarnation. At the same time, a well-known Islamic scientific treatise, which likened a portion of the eye's anatomy to glass, entered the scientific circles of the Latin West. Amidst this complex web of glass-related phenomena early modern Italian artists used glass in some of their most important artworks but, until now, no study has offered a comprehensive consideration of the important role glass played in shaping the art of the Italian Renaissance.</p> <p><i>Seeing Renaissance Glass</i> explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass—whether it be depictions of glass or actual glass in the form of stained glass, gilded glass, and transparent glass—to resonate with the period's complex visuality and achieve their artistic goals.</p> <p>Such an interdisciplinary approach to the visual culture of early modern Italy is particularly well-suited to an introductory humanities course as well as classes on media studies and late medieval and early Renaissance art history. It is also ideal for a general reader interested in art history or issues of materiality.</p>. Nonfiction. Art. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-23 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87b6ba59-39e3-45bb-a941-db77320cf396&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87b6ba59-39e3-45bb-a941-db77320cf396&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)