Seeing Renaissance Glass : Art, Optics, and Glass of Early Modern Italy, 1250-1425
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 a...
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
2018
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