Ut Pictura Amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700
Ut Pictura Amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 (Intersections) edited by Joanna Woodall, Walter Melion, Michael Zell
English | November 9, 2017 | ISBN: 9004346457 | PDF | 812 pages | 67.3 MB
English | November 9, 2017 | ISBN: 9004346457 | PDF | 812 pages | 67.3 MB
Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 examines the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia. The term 'reflexive' is here used to refer to images that invite reflection not only on their form, function, and meaning, but also on their genesis and mode of production. Early modern artists often fashioned reflexive images and effigies of this kind, that appraise love by exploring the lineaments of the pictorial or sculptural image, and complementarily, appraise the pictorial or sculptural image by exploring the nature of love. Hence the book's epigraph–ut pictura amor–'as is a picture, so is love'.