RENAISSANCE IN TUSCANY
is the site of an independent scholarly observer of the renaissance from Florence to Pienza and round about. It is envisaged as an ongoing endeavour through a series of enquiries, short essays and reflections on arts and architecture of the Tuscan quattrocento, the early renaissance. We all admire renaissance beauty and splendour: can exploration of certain artworks or visual puzzles help us to see more, through renaissance minds' eyes ?
‘Now that you're in Italy, work on something that you can see’: Bernard Berenson (1947)
'But don't let him pass through like a temporary guest or a hurrying tourist . Rather, he should pause, poke around,
and try to understand what he is seeing': Leonardo Bruni (1402)
'The eyes of the wise man are in his head -- that is, in his mind': Bishop William Durand (circa 1296)
'The work of scholars has often been compared with the solution of jigsaw puzzles, and in such puzzles of sufficient intricacy the demonstration of a fit can be so compelling that it cannot be evaded': E.H. Gombrich (1984)
is the site of an independent scholarly observer of the renaissance from Florence to Pienza and round about. It is envisaged as an ongoing endeavour through a series of enquiries, short essays and reflections on arts and architecture of the Tuscan quattrocento, the early renaissance. We all admire renaissance beauty and splendour: can exploration of certain artworks or visual puzzles help us to see more, through renaissance minds' eyes ?
‘Now that you're in Italy, work on something that you can see’: Bernard Berenson (1947)
'But don't let him pass through like a temporary guest or a hurrying tourist . Rather, he should pause, poke around,
and try to understand what he is seeing': Leonardo Bruni (1402)
'The eyes of the wise man are in his head -- that is, in his mind': Bishop William Durand (circa 1296)
'The work of scholars has often been compared with the solution of jigsaw puzzles, and in such puzzles of sufficient intricacy the demonstration of a fit can be so compelling that it cannot be evaded': E.H. Gombrich (1984)
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