End Notes
The Art of shadows
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[1] Research by Piaget cited in Victor I Stoichita, A Short History of the Shadow, Reaktion Books, London, 2019; and Interview with Stoichita in Cabinet Magazine: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/turner_stoichita.php
[2] Nijad A Al-Najdawi et al, “A-survey-of-cast-shadow-detection-algorithms” in Semantic Scholar https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-survey-of-cast-shadow-detection-algorithms-Al-Najdawi-Bez/8ae34fc4867de92744b7e119186ad681694aef2a/figure/2]
[3] Philip McCouat, “Art and Survival in Patagonia”, in Journal of Art in Society, https://www.artinsociety.com/art-and-survival-in-patagonia.html
[4] See generally Robert Rosenblum, “The Origin of Painting: A Problem in the Iconography of Romantic Classicism”, The Art Bulletin, vol 39 No 4 (Dec 1957, 279-290)
[5] The Holy Bible, Acts of the Apostles 3
[6] Floriane Heine, “In the Land of Shadows”, in The First Time, Bucher, Munich 2007, pp 40-47, at 43
[7] See also Riccardo Falcinelli, Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing, Penguin Books, (transl) 2022. at 384
[8] E H Gombrich, Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art, National Gallery Publications, London, 1995 at 52
[9] Joan K Stemmler, “The Physiological Portraits of Johann Caspar Lavater”, The Art Bulletin, Vol 75, No 1 (Mar 1993), 151]. See also Lauren Muney, “Silhouettes in History”, 2014 at https://www.silhouettesbyhand.com/history
[10] Yale University Art Gallery note on the painting https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/50128
[11] Rosenblum, op cit
[12] Stoichita, op cit
[13] Trattato della Pittura, cited in Gombrich, op cit at 20.
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[1] Research by Piaget cited in Victor I Stoichita, A Short History of the Shadow, Reaktion Books, London, 2019; and Interview with Stoichita in Cabinet Magazine: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/turner_stoichita.php
[2] Nijad A Al-Najdawi et al, “A-survey-of-cast-shadow-detection-algorithms” in Semantic Scholar https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-survey-of-cast-shadow-detection-algorithms-Al-Najdawi-Bez/8ae34fc4867de92744b7e119186ad681694aef2a/figure/2]
[3] Philip McCouat, “Art and Survival in Patagonia”, in Journal of Art in Society, https://www.artinsociety.com/art-and-survival-in-patagonia.html
[4] See generally Robert Rosenblum, “The Origin of Painting: A Problem in the Iconography of Romantic Classicism”, The Art Bulletin, vol 39 No 4 (Dec 1957, 279-290)
[5] The Holy Bible, Acts of the Apostles 3
[6] Floriane Heine, “In the Land of Shadows”, in The First Time, Bucher, Munich 2007, pp 40-47, at 43
[7] See also Riccardo Falcinelli, Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing, Penguin Books, (transl) 2022. at 384
[8] E H Gombrich, Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art, National Gallery Publications, London, 1995 at 52
[9] Joan K Stemmler, “The Physiological Portraits of Johann Caspar Lavater”, The Art Bulletin, Vol 75, No 1 (Mar 1993), 151]. See also Lauren Muney, “Silhouettes in History”, 2014 at https://www.silhouettesbyhand.com/history
[10] Yale University Art Gallery note on the painting https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/50128
[11] Rosenblum, op cit
[12] Stoichita, op cit
[13] Trattato della Pittura, cited in Gombrich, op cit at 20.
© Philip McCouat, 2023. First published November 2023
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