Seeing and Knowing (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Bernard Berenson

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9780265409022: Seeing and Knowing (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265409020 ISBN 13: 9780265409022

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Seeing and Knowing

S0 in Venice from a window on the Grand Canal, where it opens toward the lagoon, I was looking diagonally across to San Giorgio. Steamboats and motor launches were going up and down and were so big in shape and so clearly articulated, that even at a certain distance I recognized what they were. But what was it that picked them tight? Again, as at Siena, spots of colour suggesting flower gardens rather than what I unques tioningly assumed they were, namely passengers. I knew what they must be from experience, not from what was presented to my View. At the same time I kept seeing zigzaggy criss-crossilhou ettes and my eyes alone could not have told me that they were gondoliers stand ing and rowing in their gondolas. (1, 2)

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