Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Número de páginas: 350 págs. 17.7 x 25.3 cm
Fecha de edición: 30-04-2024
EAN: 9781009444521
ISBN: 978-1-009-44452-1
Precio (sin IVA): 133,72 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 139,07 €
Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos, while also printing practical manuals that translated principles of spherical astronomy into useful data for weather watchers, farmers, and astrologers. Physiognomy, a genre related to cosmography, taught observers how to scrutinize profiles in order to sum up peoples' characters. Neither Albrecht Dürer nor Leonardo escaped the tenacious grasp of such widely This book unpacks these and other visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world.