The Veiled Christ of Cappella Sansevero
On Art, Vision and Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10275867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas D Albright (0000-0003-0691-5992, Thomas D. Albright (neuroscientist), Center for the Neurobiology of Vision, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, U.S.A.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-23 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_00479 |
| OpenAlex | W2004480940 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
A celebrated marble sculpture of the body of Jesus, known as Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ), by the 18th-century Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino offers a dramatic demonstration of art as all-encompassing illusion. As such, Sanmartino's masterpiece provides a rare opportunity to deconstruct a multifaceted and richly deceptive perceptual experience into a collection of simple sensory elements. This analysis both yields insights into the visual tools of the artist and reveals how an empirical understanding of sensory processes can illuminate complex perceptual experiences
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cognitive psychology · Illusion · Perception · Sculpture · Sensory system · Visual arts · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Multisensory perception and integration · Neuroscience · Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |