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Ruins and Empiricism
Romantic Ruminations on Ruination
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Pre-fabrication, one-size-fits-all
MEDIEVAL
INDUSTRIAL
MODERN
Italian RENAISSANCE
EMPIRICISM
Rediscovery of Greek Humanist philosophy
Rationalism
Knowledge is based on
experience
English RENAISSANCE
1300
1400
14th Century
GOTHIC
1600
1500
15th Century
16th Century
1700
17th Century
1800
18th Century
1900
19th Century
CLASSICISMS
ROMANTICISM
MANNERISM
BAROQUE
Printing Press
PICTURESQUE
Steam Engine
MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE
1300S-1400S
13th C
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Religious themes
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Static or Passive figures; Icons
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Abstracted representations of spaces
= no perspective or
= approximate perspective
•
Architecture is largely on-site
construction and continuously added to
Giotto – Cleansing of the Temple, c. 1266-1337
Wilton Diptych c. 1395–1399
RENAISSANCE ART + ARCHITECTURE
Georgio Vasari:
Accademia del
Disegno in Florence
1563
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“Rebirth” of Classical Investigations
Fascination with antique Greek ruins
and ancient architectural styles as
complete forms
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Nature as a distant backdrop
Passive, static
•
Architecture as complete creations
from single authors
Brunelleschi
Alberti
1300
1400
14th Century
1600
1500
15th Century
16th Century
•
Religious + Scientific themes
•
Human emotion and personality
•
Realistic and precise representation of space:
= Linear Perspective
= Cartesian Representations of space
•
Designo: “Drawing” Architecture:
= drawing a line: Representative, signs
= drawing forth an idea: Intellectual exchange
Architectural practice becomes removed from
the SITE and into the STUDIO
Raphael - School of Athens, 1511
PICTURESQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
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1. Painting, drawing
2. Landscaping
3. Architecture
Revolt against the concept of
indoor Studio-based Disegno
Revival of on-site construction
Fascination with ruins as they are
Preoccupation with
Time and Death
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GB Piranesi
1720-1778
Sir John Soane
1753-1837
Claude Lorrain
Salvator Rosa
Nicolas Poussin
1600
1775-1851
1800
18th Century
Insistence on Nature and the Elements
- As a prominent, active subject
- Specificity of site
- On-site paintings
Uniqueness of moment; serendipity
Depicting Industrialization
EMPIRICISM:
• Scientific method: Fact must be based on
experience
• Subjectivity and viewer interpretation
- Sensory experience of natural world
- Playfulness and Curiousity
- Non-linear paths of view
Joseph Gandy
JMW Turner
1700
17th Century
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William Kent
1685-1748
Lorrain,
Sunrise,
1646
Poussin,
Landscape
with
St Matthew
and the
Angel,
c1645
Lorrain,
Seaport
with
the
Embarkation
of the
Queen
of Sheba, 1648
salvator-rosa_landscape-with-a-dilapidated-bridge,
c1615-1673
1900
19th Century
William Kent – 1685-1748
Landscaper, Architect, painter
Engaging with Nature
Imitating natural forms
Many potential routes through
Experiential Atmospheric Drawings
William Kent, 'A view in Pope's Garden at Twickenham with the Shell Temple', c. 1736.
William Kent – 1685-1748
Landscaper, Architect, drawer
Cascade, Chiswick House, Kent, 1730
Giovanni Battista Piranesi - 1720-1778
Architect, Engraver
Ruins as present and future
conditions, As well as past
Ruins as metaphors
Piranesi, Verdute di Roma, 1760
Sir John Soane Architect
1753-1837
Son of bricklayer
Fascinated by ruins and Piranesi’s
etchings
Post-mortem architectural Legacy
– London Phone Booths
http://www.culturewhisper.com/event/view/id/3703
Sir John Soane - 1753-1837
Architect. Collaborator: Joseph Gandy
An imagined view of the Bank of England in ruins, draw in 1830, by Draughsman Joseph Gandy
Sir John Soane - 1753-1837
Architect. Collaborator: Joseph Gandy
The Mausoleum set in an imaginary landscape, a water colour by George Basevi
Joseph Mallord William Turner - 1753-1837
Painter
Atmospheric; Weather
Forces of Nature blurred with the
forces of development
JMW_Turner_-_Modern_Rome_-_Campo_Vacino
Joseph Mallord William Turner - 1753-1837
Painter
JMW_Turner_-_A paddle steamer in a storm