VISUALITY BEFORE AND BEYOND THE RENAISSANCE

VISUALITY BEFORE AND

BEYOND THE RENAISSANCE

Seeing as Others Saw

Edited by

ROBERT S. NELSON

University of Chicago

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Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance : seeing as others saw / edited by Robert S. Nelson.

p. cm.�C (Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism)

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

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Index

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

?. The retinal image, from Descartes, La Dioptrique.

?. Detail, Statue of Ibih-il, found at Mari. Early Dynastic III Period,

ca. ???? B.C.E.

?. Detail, Statue of Gudea, ruler of Lagash, found at Tello.

Neo-Sumerian Period, ca. ???? B.C.E.

?. Votive statues from the Square Temple, Tell Asmar. Early Dynastic

Periods II and III, ca. ????????? B.C.E.

?. Detail, Stele of Naram-Sin, found at Susa. Akkadian Period,

ca. ???? B.C.E.

?. Stele bearing the Laws of Hammurabi, found at Susa.

Old Babylonian Period, ????????? B.C.E.

?. Landscape with the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, east wall

of room in villa at Boscotrecase, Metropolitan Museum of Art,

New York, ca. ?? B.C.E.

?. Perseus rescuing Andromeda, Capitoline Museum, Rome,

probably first half of the second century A.D.

?. Landscape with the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, west wall

of triclinium b, House of the Priest Amandus, Pompeii, midfirst century A.D.

??. Olympia in the time of Pausanias.

??. Gypsum relief of Atargatis and Hadad, temple of Atargatis,

Dura Europos, Syria. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,

late second or third century A.D.

???. Detail of transformation tableau of the Sutra of Visualizing

Amita-yus Buddha, from Cave ???, Dunhuang, China. Eighth

Century. Courtesy of Dunhuang Research Academy.

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