Santa Croce Firenze Italy 1973
Built in 1294 for the Franciscans by Arnolfo di Cambio Santa Croce contains the remains of Michelangelo, Rossini, Machiavelli and Galileo Galilei. Amongst the artworks forming the interior are frescos by Giotto and Donatello's guilded Annunciation relief.
I spent an enchanted day pacing, sketching and drawing, attempting to understand this structure erected nearly seven hundred years ago. A structure built without a powerpoint. Built only with the power of muscle and with skills that had been developed over thousands of years.
Late in the afternoon I took a single photograph attempting to capture its essence and to record my feeling for this majestic structure still embedded in its generating culture within our modern world of mass consumption. A structure that at one and the same time is enormous yet intimately scaled to the dimensions of your body, leaving you at ease in its presence.
This ancient mastery of the relationship between the order and proportions of a building and its parts and the scale of your body was lost in the early twentieth century with the revolution of modernism, as witnessed by the new buildings you see appearing before you each day.
I spent an enchanted day pacing, sketching and drawing, attempting to understand this structure erected nearly seven hundred years ago. A structure built without a powerpoint. Built only with the power of muscle and with skills that had been developed over thousands of years.
Late in the afternoon I took a single photograph attempting to capture its essence and to record my feeling for this majestic structure still embedded in its generating culture within our modern world of mass consumption. A structure that at one and the same time is enormous yet intimately scaled to the dimensions of your body, leaving you at ease in its presence.
This ancient mastery of the relationship between the order and proportions of a building and its parts and the scale of your body was lost in the early twentieth century with the revolution of modernism, as witnessed by the new buildings you see appearing before you each day.
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Santa Croce Firenze Italy 1973
Built in 1294 for the Franciscans by Arnolfo di Cambio Santa Croce contains the remains of Michelangelo, Rossini, Machiavelli and Galileo Galilei. Amongst the artworks forming the interior are frescos by Giotto and Donatello's guilded Annunciation relief.
I spent an enchanted day pacing, sketching and drawing, attempting to understand this structure erected nearly seven hundred years ago. A structure built without a powerpoint. Built only with the power of muscle and with skills that had been developed over thousands of years.
Late in the afternoon I took a single photograph attempting to capture its essence and to record my feeling for this majestic structure still embedded in its generating culture within our modern world of mass consumption. A structure that at one and the same time is enormous yet intimately scaled to the dimensions of your body, leaving you at ease in its presence.
This ancient mastery of the relationship between the order and proportions of a building and its parts and the scale of your body was lost in the early twentieth century with the revolution of modernism, as witnessed by the new buildings you see appearing before you each day.
I spent an enchanted day pacing, sketching and drawing, attempting to understand this structure erected nearly seven hundred years ago. A structure built without a powerpoint. Built only with the power of muscle and with skills that had been developed over thousands of years.
Late in the afternoon I took a single photograph attempting to capture its essence and to record my feeling for this majestic structure still embedded in its generating culture within our modern world of mass consumption. A structure that at one and the same time is enormous yet intimately scaled to the dimensions of your body, leaving you at ease in its presence.
This ancient mastery of the relationship between the order and proportions of a building and its parts and the scale of your body was lost in the early twentieth century with the revolution of modernism, as witnessed by the new buildings you see appearing before you each day.
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Florence
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Location:
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Santa Croce Firenze Italy 1973
Built in 1294 for the Franciscans by Arnolfo di Cambio Santa Croce contains the remains of Michelangelo, Rossini, Machiavelli and Galileo Galilei. Amongst the artworks forming the interior are frescos by Giotto and Donatello's guilded Annunciation relief.
I spent an enchanted day pacing, sketching and drawing, attempting to understand this structure erected nearly seven hundred years ago. A structure built without a powerpoint. Built only with the power of muscle and with skills that had been developed over thousands of years.
Late in the afternoon I took a single photograph attempting to capture its essence and to record my feeling for this majestic structure still embedded in its generating culture within our modern world of mass consumption. A structure that at one and the same time is enormous yet intimately scaled to the dimensions of your body, leaving you at ease in its presence.
This ancient mastery of the relationship between the order and proportions of a building and its parts and the scale of your body was lost in the early twentieth century with the revolution of modernism, as witnessed by the new buildings you see appearing before you each day.
I spent an enchanted day pacing, sketching and drawing, attempting to understand this structure erected nearly seven hundred years ago. A structure built without a powerpoint. Built only with the power of muscle and with skills that had been developed over thousands of years.
Late in the afternoon I took a single photograph attempting to capture its essence and to record my feeling for this majestic structure still embedded in its generating culture within our modern world of mass consumption. A structure that at one and the same time is enormous yet intimately scaled to the dimensions of your body, leaving you at ease in its presence.
This ancient mastery of the relationship between the order and proportions of a building and its parts and the scale of your body was lost in the early twentieth century with the revolution of modernism, as witnessed by the new buildings you see appearing before you each day.
