:<i>The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting</i>

Abstract

Introduction Part I. The Surprised Eye: 1. Embrasures 2. The birth of still-life as an intertextual process 3. Margins Part II. The Inquiring Eye: 4. Assemblage 5. The turning point of painting 6. The intertextual machine Part III. The Methodical Eye: 7. Paintings, maps and mirrors 8. Two images: the painter/the act of painting 9. The reversed painting Notes Bibliography Index.