Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
Offers a fascinating look at the 18th-century European fad of making miniature portraits of a single eye and sending them to loved ones
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The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Unearthing these portraits, the author proposes that the rage for eye miniatures - and their abrupt disappearance - reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision.
