Introduction Part I: Sensation in Renaissance Mental Imagery 1 The Scientific and Artistic Traditions 2 Imprese - Mnemonics - Meditation 3 The Human Figure in Art from Middle Ages to Counter Reformation 4 Ornament 5 Allegories Part II: Sensation in Representation 6 Sight 7 Touch 8 Smell 9 Sound 10 Banquets Conclusions References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
François Quiviger is a fellow of the Warburg Institute, University of London, where he previously worked as a librarian, curator of digital resources, researcher and teacher. He has written on Renaissance art theories, academies, wine, banquets and sensations.
One major academic growth industry has been the historical study of
the senses, in which the sensory hierarchies and experiences of the
past are reconstructed. François Quiviger's The Sensory World of
Renaissance Art is one of the most stimulating and ambitious.
*The Art Newspaper*
a learned but lucid account of how Renaissance theories of the five
senses were represented in painting, beautifully illustrated and
modestly priced.
*Brian Vickers, Books of the Year,TLS*
This small-format but richly illustrated book constructs the
groundwork for further study of the representation of sensation in
Italian Renaissance art. Responding to recent work in anthropology
as well as cultural history, the author explores the relationship
between visual perception, imagination, and bodily sensation in the
historical experience of images . . . Quivigers study breathes life
and meaning into the margins of Renaissance art, integrating what
often seem discordant elements into the sensorial landscape.
*Renaissance Quarterly*
Quiviger here presents a cornucopia of ideas. Rather than drawing
on traditional literary sources to elucidate the imagery of
Renaissance painting in Italy, he approaches iconography from a
contextual point of view. His methodology relates as well to
cultural history, inasmuch as he deals with the development of
sensory responses and mnemonics. His comments about the tuning of
musical instruments, and the purpose of these images in religious
and secular works of art, are particularly thoughtful . . . Highly
recommended.
*Choice*
[Quivigers] contribution is the opening of a new field of
historical cross-sensory research that seems very promising for art
history, and he must be applauded for that. The easy accessibility
of his writing and the small format of the book invite its use as a
student's guide to the subject, leading the way into new exciting
territory. It is to be highly recommended.
*The Senses and Society*
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