Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London

by Matthew Hunter (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2013

  $59.96

  In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. This book reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture.