JAV132H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: De Pictura
4 Dec 2017
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The action of fact of one person standing for another. Images, models, photographs can are be the representation of a particular building. Use as the publish of the building. Representation of their own sake and their own meaning. History: identify as the man who holds the drawing. Entasis: from the greek verb anteinein, which contains the idea of tension. The joint between 2 elements: smaller than the thickness of base. One of the largest temple of antiquity. Thin line, semicircle on the surface: slightly curve tool to operate geometry but not drawing as representation or perspective of building in the sense we understand today. Not until 15th or 16th century in europe: drawing came a representation of building. Before that: ekphrasis: verbal description of the visual. Images of how to build the arches, but no likeness with the building itself (not representational) Monastic complex of st. gall: plan and section drawn together.
