Sense Knowledge and the Challenge of Italian Renaissance Art: El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt (Visual and Material Culture)

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- considers the relationship of El Greco, Vel zquez, and Rembrandt to Italy in more neutral terms than has been traditional, with Italy neither the epitome of style against which all should be judged, nor the proverbial elephant in the room, ignored so as to craft national histories sealed off from the world around. - considers anew the relationship of art writing to art production. - expands our understanding of how our response to works of visual art is not necessarily limited to the sense of sight, but can also encompass touch.