extramission

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• In trying to grasp the object, the eye, according to the extramission model of vision, moves energetically across the surface, scanning, spinning in an attempt to take in more of the spectacle.

  Academic text (2006)

• In his defense of the image, Francesco shows that he was clearly aware of the extramission theory's implausibility.

  Academic text (2007)

• The extramission theory, which was older and better established in medieval thought, generated tricky limiting cases:

  Academic text (2007)

• (Whether sight operates by extramission or by intromission).

  Academic text (2007)

• These panels operate at the brink of the extramission and intromission models of visuality.

  Academic text (2006)

• In that spirit, the extramission theory served as a very apt metaphor, furnishing a kind of visible argument and visual puzzle to help embody and make memorable the moral quality of circumspection.

  Academic text (2007)

• Only the extramission theory, used as a metaphor, could provide the visual argument (and puzzle) needed to embody and make memorable the abstract and ambiguous concept of circumspection as a virtue of man and property of God.

  Academic text (2007)

• It is this haptic aspect (relief and textured surfaces) that engages both the Byzantine theory of vision (extramission) and the practical veneration of the icon.

  Academic text (2006)

• The nonessentialist model of the icon as a double imprint, I believe, originates from the very image production practices available to men of letters in ninth-century Constantinople and from the stronghold of the extramission theory in Byzantine visuality.

  Academic text (2006)

• Historically, the extramission theory suggested that seeing was a result of light rays coming from the eyes.

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