[-empyre-] holbein

["eugenie (temp)" <eugenies@onetel.net.uk>]

hi adam,

as far as i know, the ambassadors was holbein's only anamorphic painting,
but anamorphic works were very popular, especially in the c16th-17th,
included in virtually all treatises on perspective during that time. as well
as baltrusaitis (see earlier post), martin kemp talks about it a bit in 'the
science of art', and dalia judovitz has an interesting article - ?Vision,
Representation and Technology in Descartes¹, in Modernity and the Hegemony
of Vision, David Michael Levin, ed., University of California Press, 1993 -
where she argues that anamorphosis was a tactic designed to reveal the
instrumentality of linear perspective.

cheers
eugenie

on 5/10/03 11:56 AM, Adam Margerison at adammargerison@yahoo.com.au wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have, ashamedly, been sniffing at the edges of the
> conversation.. but now i brave a word.
> 
> I'm a student thinking about histories of virtual
> space, and i wondered if the Ambassadors was Holbein's
> only anamorphic work could somebody help me as to what
> he was responding to in this one-off foray? were
> (m)any of his contemporaries up to similar things?
> 
> ta
> 
> Adam Margerison
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