Vanities of the eye: vision in early modern European culture
Vanities of the eye: vision in early European culture by Stuart Clark Vanities of the Eye investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe, a time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was the focus of much debate. In medicine, art theory, science, religion, and philosophy, sight came to be characterised as uncertain or paradoxical – mental images no longer resembled the external world. Was seeing really believing? Stuart Clark explores the controversial debates...
