This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of the blind, blind musicians, blindness as punishment, blindness as a special mark. The book discusses blindness in antiquity, in the Early Christian world, in the Middle Ages, and in the Renaissance, with a final consideration of Diderot.
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Moshe Barasch is Jack Cotton Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of many books on art history and the theory of art. A winner of the Israel Prize in 1996, he was recently elected corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.
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Few periods in history, if indeed any, have been so fascinated with various figures of the blind, and have so deeply and vividly experienced the complexity and intricacy of blindness, as antiquity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secular blind, blind figure, sur les aveugles, blind seer, medieval imagination, blind beggar, blind person, temporary blindness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, New Testament, Northern Europe, Old Law, Triumph of Death, Wheel of Fortune, Book of Tobit, Christian Topography, Counter Reformation, Italian Renaissance, Pieter Brueghel New!
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Few periods in history, if indeed any, have been so fascinated with various figures of the blind, and have so deeply and vividly experienced the complexity and intricacy of blindness, as antiquity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secular blind, blind figure, sur les aveugles, blind seer, medieval imagination, blind beggar, blind person, temporary blindness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, New Testament, Northern Europe, Old Law, Triumph of Death, Wheel of Fortune, Book of Tobit, Christian Topography, Counter Reformation, Italian Renaissance, Pieter Brueghel New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Images in the margins of Gothic manuscripts (California studies in the history of art) by Lilian M. C Randall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Homeric Hymns by Homer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius on page 140, and Back Matter
- In and Out of the Mind by Ruth Padel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Phoenician Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Euripides on page 40, and Back Matter
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- The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that Shaped Them by Diana Fuss in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey by Peter Guralnick in Back Matter
- The Limits of Medicine by Andrew Stark in Back Matter
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