Summary: A study of drawing and philosophy in artistic practice, important not only for art history but also for literature studies, intellectual history, religious history, history of the book,and history of science. Jusepe Ribera (1591-1652), Guercino (1591-1666), Stefano della Bella (1610-1664), Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651), and Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) all created printed drawing lessons dedicated to the practice and theory of drawing. These artists composed wordless compositions on a page of eyes, ears, hands, mouths and noses, configurations that were ostensibly meant to teach the practice of drawing. Yet as this book argues, these were not only pedagogical treatises on practice but also theoretical works on draftsmanship made by the most influential European draftsmen. This book is the first theoretical consideration of these major works. Reading these treatises in the context of an early modern intellectual history of the senses, this book examines how artists visually theorized the process of producing knowledge through making lines on a page. Beginning with the pedagogical treatises of Albrecht Dürer and progressing through the pedagogical writings, drawings, and printed drawing books of early-modern draftsmen, this book traces a history of the senses and drawing, demonstrating how shifting concepts of the body, divinity and god changed the processes by which artists conceived of drawing the world, themselves and others

Contents: A History of Early Modern Drawing and the Senses - Function and Practice of the Drawing Manual - The Rhetoric of - Drawing Two Pedagogies: Geometric and Sensory ; Albrecht Dürer and the Euclidean Point - Proportion - Explicatio: The Line Unfolding from the Point - Diagrammatic and Mimetic Representation in Kepler - Nicholas of Cusa on Measurement and Perfection - Dissolution in Heinrich Lautensack - From the Intellect to the Eye ; The Printed Eye and Impressions of Sense - The Tabula Rasa - Print as a Metaphor of Knowledge - L'Idea ; Abraham Bloemaert, Peter Paul Rubens and the Reform of Caritas - Passions and Suffering - Is it I? The Reception of Leonardo's 'Last Supper' - They Saw We Have not Seen: The Apostle Portrait - Wonder, René Descartes and Charles le Brun - Actions that Terminate in the Soul ; Epilogue: Giovanni Morelli and the Science of Ears and Hands. (Studies in Baroque Art, 6)

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