One major academic growth industry has been the historical study of the senses, in which the sensory hierarchies and experiences of the past are reconstructed. François Quiviger's The Sensory World of Renaissance Art is one of the most stimulating and ambitious. * The Art Newspaper * a learned but lucid account of how Renaissance theories of the five senses were represented in painting, beautifully illustrated and modestly priced. * Brian Vickers, Books of the Year,TLS * This small-format but richly illustrated book constructs the groundwork for further study of the representation of sensation in Italian Renaissance art. Responding to recent work in anthropology as well as cultural history, the author explores the relationship between visual perception, imagination, and bodily sensation in the historical experience of images . . . Quivigers study breathes life and meaning into the margins of Renaissance art, integrating what often seem discordant elements into the sensorial landscape. * Renaissance Quarterly * Quiviger here presents a cornucopia of ideas. Rather than drawing on traditional literary sources to elucidate the imagery of Renaissance painting in Italy, he approaches iconography from a contextual point of view. His methodology relates as well to cultural history, inasmuch as he deals with the development of sensory responses and mnemonics. His comments about the tuning of musical instruments, and the purpose of these images in religious and secular works of art, are particularly thoughtful . . . Highly recommended. * Choice * [ Quivigers] contribution is the opening of a new field of historical cross-sensory research that seems very promising for art history, and he must be applauded for that. The easy accessibility of his writing and the small format of the book invite its use as a student's guide to the subject, leading the way into new exciting territory. It is to be highly recommended. * The Senses and Society *
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