EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Stephen Hawking, Anamorphosis, Colosseum
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Important reminder: we are telling a story about what looks like an inevitable march from pre-through early to modernity . But there have always also been alternative strands. Also, anamorphosis challenges linear perspective and its claims to truthful . It demonstrates the difference between illusion and reality representation. Stephen hawking (a brief history of time: galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science) The style (new, wondrous); radical discovery, but also self-promotion. For the gaze of everyone (luther, descartes) Florentine patrician (important location; role of class) Telescope: new technology, based on the laws of vision The same image was used for a 1609 book of 200 stories ( novellas ) about recent and living rulers. This image was shared by a number of printers. One was tomaso baglioni, who was actually a front for a banned printer, He imported and printed controversial pamphlets (and pornography)
