Mapping Angels

The conversion of kingdoms and territories by the Jesuits (Regnorum & provinciarum per Societatem conversio)

Moretus, Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1640)

Paolo Uccello, Chalice in Perspective

Leon Battista Alberti, Della Pittura (On Painting)

1435 (Latin) / 1436 (Italian)

-perspective as a tool to construct a proper ISTORIA

-links perspectival painting to rhetoric and geometry

-elevate the status of artists and the visual arts

-both an intellectual and scientific basis for painting

-perspective as a form of inquiry—evidence of the human ability to command knowledge of the world

Illustration of Brunelleschi’s experiment . 1420s.

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Florence Cathedral. 1296-1436.

Illustration of Brunelleschi’s experiment . 1420s.

Illustration of Brunelleschi’s experiment . 1420s.

Hans Holbein. The Ambassadors. 1533.

Jean François Niceron, A chair in regular perspective, La Perspective Curieuse. Paris, 1651

Q=vanishing pointR=distance point

Jean François Niceron, A chair in anamorphic perspective, La Perspective Curieuse. Paris, 1651.

Raphael, School of Athens (1509-11)

La Disputa

Separation of Light from DarknessSistine Ceiling, 1508-12

Creation of Sun and Moon and Planets

Raphael, Sistine

Madonna, 1513

Andrea Pozzo,Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work, 1691-94

Fresco. Sant'Ignazio, Rome

The conversion of kingdoms and territories by the Jesuits (Regnorum & provinciarum per Societatem conversio)

Jan Porcellis, Shipping in Stormy Seas, c. 1630