I admit I’ve wandered from the path this morning. While usually keeping to Contemporary Art like the silly person I am, I chose instead to attend a talk by Samuel Edgerton on Renaissance Perspective. The best talk I’ve been to so far, it laid out the history of perspective as born of theological and medieval concerns and rooted in a sort of divine rather than secular geometry. Galileo’s studies in art, interpretations by Alberti of Brunelleschi’s religious impulses, aided his science and enabled his great intuitive leaps. The implication of the talk was to give us a full view of the Rennaissance and to break down some false markers between the medieval divine and more secular advances in society. This was an amazing talk, the kind of thing that makes wandering around this building in a morning haze a wonderous thing.
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