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The science of art : optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat / Martin Kemp

This study explores the influence of perspective and colour optics on European painting from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. It examines how artists and theorists applied scientific principles to the imitation of nature.

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