italian books
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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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