Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Bill, I'm probably being my retentive art-self on this one, but I doubt this conversation happened. Is this one of Vasari's stories? The majority of Renaissance sculpture (especially Michelangelo's) was specifically designed to sit in alcoves at immense heights. Hence David's "murderer's hands". They bought him off the outside wall a long time ago. My point apart from me being a retentive pedant? You raise some really good points about the idea of 3 dimensionality that i hadn't thought about before, whereby 3D objects can look 2-dimensional by their presentation, and i wonder how powerful those perspectival shifts were to the renaissance public, and i wonder if we do a similar adjustment with new mediums. Cheers, Gary PS. Silver rules! ;-) At 1:12 PM -0700 6/4/2000, Bill wrote: >Michelangelo was convinced sculpture was the superior art form and >pointed this out to Leonardo by saying that the viewer could walk around and >see all sides of a sculpture. - -- "The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during adolescence." OO The Uses of Disorder [_]<| Personal Identity and City Life -- Richard Sennett /|\ Gary Elshaw Post-Grad Film Student Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html