Question
This book challenges Eugene Fromentin and Joshua Reynolds’s writings about an artistic era due to their reliance on an Albertian mode. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book that includes chapters on the “Mapping Impulse” of an era characterized by “visual culture,” in contrast to the Italian “textual culture.” It was followed up in 1988 by Rembrandt’s Enterprise.
ANSWER: The Art of Describing
[10e] In The Art of Describing, art historian Svetlana Alpers wrote about this regional historical period with a three-word name that roughly spanned the 17th-century, including the career of Jan Vermeer.
ANSWER: Dutch Golden Age
[10m] The first section of The Art of Describing focuses on Constantijn Huygens, who purchased one of these devices from Cornelis Drebbel and demonstrated it to various artists. Tim Jenison attempted to recreate The Music Lesson using one of these devices.
ANSWER: camera obscura [prompt on pinhole camera]
<Keyal, Painting and Sculpture>
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