San Francisco y Dante

San Francisco y Dante
Golden Gate
Point
Punctual
Pointed Arch
Vanishing Point
Florence
West Point
Punto Guanacasteco
Egon Schiele

Prov.1:33
 "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."

“Well, civilization as I understand it can be created in a monastery or a court just as well as in a city-perhaps rather better. But all the same, the social and economic system that grew up in Italian towns, particularly in Florence in the thirteenth century, had a point. As opposed to the system of chivalry, it was realistic: and the proof is that it has survived. Industrial and banking conditions in Florence at the time of Dante, were surprisingly similar to those that exist in Lombard Street today, except that the double entry wasn’t invented till the fourteenth century.”~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch3 Romance and Reality

“Two dimensional art –tapestry art-is enchanting. It creates its own world of suspended belief. It allows the artist to free his fancy and to decorate his surfaces. But for some reason it can’t develop. It arrives at a limited perfection and there it sticks. But the moment you introduce a third dimension-space, solidity- then the possibilities of expansion and development are limitless.” ~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch3 Romance and Reality

“Giotto had, more than any artist before him, the ability to make his figures look solid. He manages to simplify them into large, comprehensible, apprehensible shapes; and it gives one a profound satisfaction to feel that one can grasp them so completely. He makes his figures more vividly credible because he wishes us to feel more intensely the human drama in which they are involved. Once we have, so to say, learnt Giotto’s language, we can recognize him as one of the greatest masters of painted drama that has ever lived.” ~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch3 Romance and Reality

The Mystic Marriage of St. Francis is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Sasetta, currently housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.

Egon Schiele: Reclining Woman

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

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