The Ghost Of Galileo: In A Forgotten Painting From English Civil War J L Heilbron Oxford University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

In 1643 4 The Once-Famous Francis Cleyn Painted Unhappy Young Heir Of Corfe Castle John Bankes And His Tutor Dr Maurice Williams Painter Is Now Almost Forgotten Painting Much Neglected Sitters Themselves Have Left Little To Mark Their Lives But On Table Lies A Book Open An Immediately Identifiable Very Significant Page Representation Omits Author\ S Name Book\ Title It Sits There As Code Only Viewers Who Had Encountered Original Characteristic Figures Its Frontispiece Would Known Significance Galileo\ Dialogue Two Chief World Systems (1632) Defence Copernican Cosmology That Incited Infamous Clash Between Author Church Presence This No Accident Instead Statement Learning Attitudes Cosmopolitan Engagement European Discourse By Painting\ English Subjects Grasping Hold Clue Helibron Deciphers Contentious Appearance From Stuart England Unravel Interlocking Threads Art History Political Religious Science Drawing Unexploited Archival Material Wide Range Printed Works He Weaves Together Court Culture Italian Connections Well Astronomical Astrological Knowledge Propagated Contemporary Almanacs Deployed Architecture Plays Masques Heilbron Also Explores Biographies Sir (Father Sitter) Setting Them Into Narrative Rich Cultured Σελίδες: 528 Διαστάσεις: 16 5X16 5Cm