Abstract

What did early modern European audiences make of the iridescent surfaces of colonial Mexican featherwork? While much previous scholarship relates their appeal to brightness, they also exhibit chromatic instability activated by alterations in the angle of illumination or view. This plurality of viewing experiences mirrored those provided by a range of other popular forms of contingent media such as anamorphic and ambiguous images. In ways both similar and distinct, featherwork exposed conventions of pictorial representation and the limitations of the sense of sight itself, embodying an epistemological dilemma that was especially important to the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century Spain.

摘要

早期的现代欧洲观众如何看待墨西哥殖民时期羽毛装饰的虹彩表面？尽管以前的许多学者都将其吸引力与亮度相关，但它们还表现出色不稳定性，该不稳定性是由照明或视角的变化引起的。这种多种观看体验反映了由一系列其他流行形式的或有媒体（例如变形和模糊图像）提供的观看体验。羽毛作品以相似和截然不同的方式暴露了图形表示的惯例和视觉感官本身的局限性，体现出认识论​​的困境，这对十七世纪西班牙的知识文化尤为重要。