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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Grandezza naturale

Speranza

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In fifteenth-century Firenze, the fashion for perspectival composition AND NATURALISTIC SETTIGNS made hierarchical distortions -- of a colossal statue -- seem OUTMODED.

Alberti is the ONLY writer, apparently, in the fifteenth century, to discuss COLOSSAL STATUES at any depth.

Alberti decidedly had MIXED FEELINGS about colossal statues.

Albeti attacks the colossal statue on INTELLECTUAL GROUNDS.

Alberti is suspicious of the colossal statue's SINGULAIRITY, which Alberti regards as UNCOMMUNICATIVE and ANTI-SOCIAL (even).

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