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Speaker: Etienne Jollet Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

"E cosi di questa ponderatione si farà un libro particolare": Poetics of Balance in the Italian Renaissance

Research Seminar
Leonardo da Vinci never wrote the book of ponderazione, but his evocation reminds us of how important the question of balance and weight in Italian Renaissance art has been: a physical paradigm intermingled with the better-known geometrical one. [more]
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