italian books
Nov. 20th, 2004 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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I was looking at one of the books we picked up in Italy. It's the exhibition catalog for a show at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on the origin of perspective. The show, which I literally had to run through when I discovered it after my time had already run out, included illusion boxes and fake perspective inlays and all that wonderful stuff. While I looked at it, I was thinking about an artist whose work we had seen in Venice. He carved some terrific wooden panels at the Scuolo di San Rocco. His name had gone out of my head, so I went back to the book at hand and picked a line at random to see if I could make head and/or tails of it, and halfway through the sentence, I ran into the word "pianta."
Hey, that was the name of the artist in Venice! Roberto Pianta. Thank you, Serendipity!
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I was looking at one of the books we picked up in Italy. It's the exhibition catalog for a show at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on the origin of perspective. The show, which I literally had to run through when I discovered it after my time had already run out, included illusion boxes and fake perspective inlays and all that wonderful stuff. While I looked at it, I was thinking about an artist whose work we had seen in Venice. He carved some terrific wooden panels at the Scuolo di San Rocco. His name had gone out of my head, so I went back to the book at hand and picked a line at random to see if I could make head and/or tails of it, and halfway through the sentence, I ran into the word "pianta."
Hey, that was the name of the artist in Venice! Roberto Pianta. Thank you, Serendipity!
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Date: 2004-11-21 09:22 am (UTC)The same isn't true for my Italian book on the exhibition. Borromini is only mentioned once in there, in the text, sans picture. But at least they have a way to check without looking at every page.
Illusionistic paintings on walls were suggested once in a letter to the editor here, where we have a couple of major bridge-tunnels connecting two major sections of our megalopolis. A reader suggested painting happy Disney characters on the walls, so that the tunnels didn't scare folks. But I thought that might make them drive even slower, so maybe painting monsters would be better. Then I thought, if you really want to scare people, paint water cascading down the walls and puddling on the roadway.
I once walked into a three-dimensional corridor and got the impact.
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Date: 2004-11-21 10:19 am (UTC)It is, not surprisingly, in Marin.