The Living Image In Renaissance Art

Download or read book The Living Image in Renaissance Art written by Fredrika H. Jacobs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining research and ideas from the histories of art, medicine, and natural philosophy, this book demonstrates the significance of "lifelikeness" in Renaissance art and considers the implications of claims that a work of art is "a living thing." Critical language describing such works became codified. This period also witnessed the advent of early modern medicine and anatomical science. Sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance artists rendered images in painting and sculpture that are so higholy mimetic as to be nearly lifelike.