Iridescence & the image : material thinking in the early modern Spanish world /
"Explores how seventeenth-century Spanish painter Antonio de Pereda and his contemporaries used iridescent materials such as textiles, feathers, and shells to examine visual perception and cultural meaning. Traces transatlantic influences and reveals how these materials shaped debates on knowle...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2025]
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | "Explores how seventeenth-century Spanish painter Antonio de Pereda and his contemporaries used iridescent materials such as textiles, feathers, and shells to examine visual perception and cultural meaning. Traces transatlantic influences and reveals how these materials shaped debates on knowledge, empiricism, and belief in early modern Spain and Mexico"-- |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2017, under the title: Iridescence, vision, and belief in the early modern Hispanic world. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271099699 0271099690 |