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Category Archives: Discovery
Robert Burt, Artist of Mystery, Adventure and Joy
The subjects of Robert Burt’s paintings are almost entirely found through his experiences in the Desert Southwest of the United States and northern Mexico. Although I had become aware of his art over the course of the past several years through gallery event … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, Art, Bauwerk, Discovery, Recapitulation, Renaissance Rules
Tagged Arizona, Art, Bauwerk, Crafting Place, Meaning, Memory, Recapitulation, Robert Burt
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Venice Pavilion at the Biennale 2014 – Sonnets in Babylon by Daniel Libeskind
Venice has its own permanent pavilion at the Biennale, adjacent to those of many nations. This is not only appropriate because the Biennale is in Venice, but because Venice was an independent nation-state for over 1000 years – until Napoleon … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Bauwerk, Discovery, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Venice Italy
Tagged Architecture, Bauwerk, Daniel Libeskind, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Venice, Venice Biennale
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Venice – Urban Palimpsest and Tomb of Memories
“Palimpsest” (“palinsesto” in Italian) has its origins in the Greek word for “scraped again”. The original reference may have been to layered manuscripts, where older text was no longer more valued by the holder than the underlaying and very rare … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Discovery, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Renaissance Rules, Uncategorized, Venice Italy, Zeitgeist
Tagged Alvar Alto, Architecture, Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, History, Italy, Kevin Lynch, Palimpsest, Recapitulation, Renaissance Rules, Stephen Greenblat, Urban Palimsest, Venice, W. G. Sebald, Zeitgeist
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The Seen and the Unseen
“What is seen is transient, the unseen is eternal.” “They could not see the forest for the trees.” Several different types of “seeing” are evident in the two aphorisms quoted above. The first is speaking to the “unseen” as non-physical objects, ideas or … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, Lead On, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance Rules, Zeitgeist
Tagged Course Correction, Eternal, Innovation, Meaning, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Temporal
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Venice Churches – The First 250 Years
The number, location and names of parish churches in Venice has varied over the millennia, along with reassignment of some former parishes as subsidiary locations and some monastery closings leaving a parish church in later times. Churches were also established in other island communities around … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, Recapitulation, Renaissance Rules, San Marco, San Zaccaria, Venice Italy
Tagged History, Italy, Recapitulation, Venice, Venice Churches
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Castello di Vertine in Chianti – Tuscany
Chianti, the legendary domain in the heart of Tuscany between Firenze and Siena, spanning provincial borders and several millennia. The heart of Chianti enfolds many extraordinary, peaceful towns, country monasteries, castles, villas and vineyards, and the ruins of a thousand years of war. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Bauwerk, Discovery, Recapitulation, Renaissance Rules, Tuscany
Tagged Architecture, Castello di Vertine, Castles, Chianti, Crafting Place, History, Italy, Recapitulation, Travel, Tuscany, Val d'Arbia, Vertine
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Castello di Gargonza – Tuscany
Castello di Gargonza rests steadfastly at the end of a small “white road”, Strada Communale di Gargonza, a narrow branch off of the serpentine Strada Statale Senese Aretina (S73) in the woods of the southern Chianti Mountains in Tuscany. Not far west of stunning Monte San Sevino towering … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Bauwerk, Discovery, Recapitulation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Tuscany
Tagged Architecture, Bauwerk, Castello di Gargonza, Castles, Crafting Place, Garganza Arts, History, Italy, Recapitulation, Renaissance, Tuscany
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Venice – Campo della Misericordia and the Scuola Nuova
Prosperity and Public Welfare The Scuola della Misericordia was founded on Isola Valverde next to the ancient Abbazia Santa Maria della Valverde, as was shared in a previous post, “Venice – Campo dell’ Abbazia” (follow the link to read it: http://wp.me/pVUDj-1vw ). The scuola … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Bauwerk, Discovery, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Venice Italy
Tagged Architecture, Bauwerk, Campo, Crafting Place, History, Italy, Jan Fabre, Pierre Case, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Sansovino, Venice
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Venice – Campo dell’ Abbazia and the Isola Valverde
An Island Lost in Time The island of Valverde in north-central Sestiere Cannaregio, Venice, was apparently a relatively stable velme and barene combination (higher mudbanks with arable soil) one of the earliest habitable islands in the archipelago, known for its copse of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Bauwerk, Discovery, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Venice Italy
Tagged Abbazia Santa Maria del Valverde, Architecture, Art, City Planning, Crafting Place, History, Italy, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Scuolo Grande de la Misericordia, Urban Design, Urban Open Space, Venetian Lagoon, Venice
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Venice – Campo Sant’ Agnese and the Purloined Rio
The island of Sant’ Agnese, in Venice’s Sestiere Dorsoduro, is unidentifiable as such today. On its north end, the island was extended across the pond now remembered by a street, Piscina Fornier (“piscina” denotes “pond”), and land further developed to edge a corseted Grand Canal. To … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Discovery, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Venice Italy
Tagged Accademia, Bauwerk, Campo, Campo Sant'Agnese, City Planning, Crafting Place, Gesuati, History, Italy, Recapitulation, Reformation, Urban Open Space, Venice
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Renaissance Rules 