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Chapter 1 - Halls of Mirrors

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Genevieve Warwick
Genevieve Warwick
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University of Edinburgh
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Beginning with the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the chapter maps the history of Renaissance glass mirror-making from the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon to seventeenth-century Paris. It also offers a typology of Renaissance mirror types across the decorative arts and scientific instruments of the period. Further, it considers the idea of the mirror as an agent of light, reflection, and illusion across a range of cultural domains, comprising folklore, myth, and literature.

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Versailles Hall of MirrorsVenetian glass Murano
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The Mirror of Art
Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture
 , pp. 17 - 77
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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