Poussin and Optics: Reflections on the Lake in “a Calm”

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_article_3378
dc.title	Poussin and Optics: Reflections on the Lake in “a Calm”
dc.contributor.author	Bell Janis
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2020/1/poussin-and-optics-reflections-on-the-lake-in-a-ca/
dc.description.abstract	Poussin’s biographers emphasised the importance of his study of optics and, particularly, of his study of Zaccolini’s treatises. Through a close examination of the reflections on the surface of the lake in Landscape with a Calm, we will show how Poussin’s mastery of catoptrics (the science of mirrors) guides the viewers’ experience and provides a key to the function of the lake as the central focus of the picture.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 29 \| Dicembre 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-11
dc.dateAccepted	2020-09-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-07-03
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2020/01/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Landscape
dc.subject	Landscape
dc.subject	Light and shadow
dc.subject	Light and shadow
dc.subject	Optics
dc.subject	Optics
dc.subject	Poussin
dc.subject	Poussin
dc.subject	Seicento painting
dc.subject	Seicento painting
dc.subject	Zaccolini
dc.subject	Zaccolini

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abstract

Poussin’s biographers emphasised the importance of his study of optics and, particularly, of his study of Zaccolini’s treatises. Through a close examination of the reflections on the surface of the lake in Landscape with a Calm, we will show how Poussin’s mastery of catoptrics (the science of mirrors) guides the viewers’ experience and provides a key to the function of the lake as the central focus of the picture.

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11 Dicembre 2020

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24 Settembre 2020

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03 Luglio 2020

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Keywords: Seicento painting • Landscape • Optics • Poussin • Zaccolini • Light and shadow

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