“Painting, says Leonardo, depends on ‘l’armonica proporzionalita della parti che compongono il tutto, che contenta il senso’. Here Leonardo shows himself touched by the predominant Platonism of his time, for the idea that the visual arts were a sort of frozen music was familar to many theorists of the Renaissance, and had been given superb [...]
Archive for October 16th, 2009
the open field — renaissance to present
Posted in painting music on October 16, 2009 |
