Fifteenth-century Painting Research Articles

Reproductions of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings of Interest in the History of Physics. 72. Other Unrecorded Fifteenth-Century Paintings in which Spectacles Appear

This article calls attention to the fact that a fifteenth-century painting in which spectacles appear is to be found in the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University. Another unlisted painting of this type which hangs in the Art Gallery in Glasgow is also described.

Reproduction of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings of Interest in the History of Physics. 67. Other Fifteenth-Century Paintings in Which Spectacles Appear

Two additional fifteenth-century paintings of note in which spectacles are clearly portrayed are here reproduced and commented upon.

Reproductions of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings of Interest in the History of Physics. 66. Fifteenth Century Paintings in American Galleries in Which Spectacles Appear

At least one famous fifteenth century painting in which spectacles appear is now on exhibit in this country. It is reproduced in this article in order to call its existence to the attention of physicists.

Light as Form and Symbol in Some Fifteenth-Century Paintings

In accounts of the development of naturalism in fifteenth-century painting, linear perspective is usually given first consideration. This modern emphasis on perspective has been influenced, no doubt, by the writings of the fifteenth-century artists themselves. Discussions of it occupy a prominent place in the treatises of Alberti and Piero della Francesca. But these discussions were motivated not only by a sense of the importance of perspective for painting, but also by a desire to raise the status of the craft, and a corresponding insistence on the theoretical and mathematical modes of thought necessary to it.

Light as Form and Symbol in Some Fifteenth-Century Paintings

Light as Form and Symbol in Some Fifteenth-Century Paintings