The Power of Image: Perception of Art in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

David Friedberg — born in 1948 in Cape Town, he is now a professor of art history at Columbia University (New York).
Before the reader is a fundamental study of the psychological impact of visual images on people in the Middle Ages and the Modern period. Drawing on achievements in the fields of art history, psychology, neurobiology,
written testimonies of contemporaries, Friedberg analyzes reactions
to material images, from admiration and erotic attraction to iconoclasm and acts of vandalism. The publication is aimed at a broad audience,
interested in the history of art.