MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Filippo Brunelleschi, Town Square, Ninety-Five Theses
5 Feb 2018
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Not a mere encounter but a cultural construction of others. Geographia (ptolemy) 150 ce- 1406 translation into latin. Looks stretched out but from above/below it is full size. Painting through grids and other art tactics, holes for perspective. A way to change how they looked at reality. Self-portraits arise: artists put themselves in complex paintings and also just paint themselves. Rise of pictorial depictions of private lives and artists painting themselves. Art for the sake of reflecting a reality in which the artist himself is also participating. Self portrait: the self as mirrored spherically 1433. Perspective where parallel lines appear to converge at a certain point. Dome cathedrals show up in architecture so trendy so talented. Filippo brunelleschi- thought of the whole egg-like thing for domes. Plazas and streets/space: palmanova 1593; nicosia, cyprus (1567) All have city square at center and radiate out from there- empty space in middle. Renaissance space: space of singularity and positive emptiness,
