How Long to Read Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus

How Long Does it Take to Read Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 44 minutes to read Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus by Charles H. Carman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is typically accorded Alberti. Whether regarding his purpose in teaching the use of a geometric single point perspective system, or more broadly in rendering forms naturalistically, the emphasis leans toward the ideal of Renaissance art as highly rational. There remains the impression that the principle aim of the painter is to create objective, even illusionistic images. A close reading of Alberti’s text, however, including some adjustments in translation, points rather towards an emphasis on discerning the spiritual in the material. Alberti’s use of the tropes Minerva and Narcissus, for example, indicates the opposing characteristics of wisdom and sense certainty that function dialectically to foster the traditional importance of seeing with the eye of the intellect rather than merely with physical eyes. In this sense these figures also set the context for his, and, as the author explains, Brunelleschi’s earlier invention of this perspective system that posits not so much an objective seeing as an opposition of finite and infinite seeing, which, moreover, approximates Cusanus’s famous notion of a coincidence of opposites. Together with Alberti’s and Cusanus’s ideals of vision, extensive analysis of art works discloses a ubiquitous commitment to stimulating an intellectual perception of divine, essential, and unseen realities that enliven the visible material world.

How long is Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus?

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus by Charles H. Carman is 218 pages long, and a total of 56,244 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 7 minutes to read Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus aloud.

What Reading Level is Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus?

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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