 The Role of Perspective in the Transformation of European CultureDalibor Vesely ()
Chapter Chapter 3 in The Art of Science, 2014, pp 49-70 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The origins of the Renaissance pictorial perspective are closely linked with the transformation of European culture that began already before the fifteenth century. This transformation can be traced back to the new appropriation of nature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, growing individualism, the first signs of a new humanism and the change in the nature of knowledge, marked by the return to Aristotelian tradition. However the most important source of perspectival thinking was the new development in the medieval philosophy of light and geometrical optics known then as perspectiva naturalis Perspective natural . The move towards a geometrical representation of light was a logical consequence of an attempt to find a more direct form of participation in the essential reality of the divine, closely associated already in the twelfth century with mathematics and in particular with geometry ( Ohly, Friedrich Ohly 1982, p. 142). Keywords: Visible World; Fifteenth Century; Fourteenth Century; Architectural Element; Visible Reality (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-02111-9_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02111-9_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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