The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
Martin Kemp. Yale University Press, $40 (383pp) ISBN 978-0-300-05241-1
In a volume filled with some 570 illustrations, Kemp discusses European painters' imitation of nature through the sciences of perspective and color. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 04/20/1992
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 375 pages - 978-0-300-04337-2