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Rome2017

Roma
That time we went to Rome and stayed for 5 months.
September 2017 - January 2018
I miss it and plan to live in Rome one day. (it's part of the 10YearPlan.)

RE VIEW

The sketchbook, page by page

1. Labyrinths. I went there with a project to finish. I made Minorinth for NoQuarter. I thought there might be some trace of the medieval labyrinth in Roman churches. I was wrong.

I went there with notes like:
What will I want to do in Italy?

Antique/Christian architecture
Relics - Scala Sancta

study of sacred art:
figural composition as pertains to decorum and strength of meaning.

architectural constructions around altars and relics

IDEAS FROM ITALY

• metamorphosis and identity
• there is more than one art world, there is no art world: only this one.
• the circular nature of art creation
  -- model in clay, 3d scan, model in computer, 3d print, finish or remodel-rescan, etc.
  ---- something that 2d artists have enjoyed forever.
  -- no reason that our old ethos cannot continue. Rhizome's "the download"
  -- a hybrid art which exists in both physical and digital form
  -- the way we experience art is mostly online images of physical objects.

bibliography

• "the gods made flesh: metamorphosis and the pursuit of paganism" - Leonard Barkin
• "Roman Labyrinth Mosaics and the Experience of Motion" - Rebecca Molholt ¹
• "The Italians" - John Hooper
• "In Other Words" - Jhumpa Lahiri
• "Metamorphoses" - Ovid
• "Gomorrah" - Roberto Saviano
• Michaelangelo
  • The agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Berlin
  • MetMuseum catalog
• Pontormo - Diario
• Bernini
• Tinoretto

Places to visit

• Tempietto - Vatican
• Basilica San Clemente
  Via Labicana, 95
  Open Mon-Sat, 9am-12.30pm; 3pm-6pm; Sun 12.15pm-6pm
  Entry fee: €10
• Domitilla Catacombs
  Via delle Sette Chiese, 282
  Open Mon, Wed-Sun 9am-12pm, 2pm-5pm
  Entry fee: €8
• Hadrian’s Crypt (Mouth of Truth)
  Piazza Bocca della Verità, 18
  Opening times for the Crypt, Mon-Sat, 10am-2pm, 3pm-5.30pm; Sun 12pm – 5.30pm
  Opening times the church, Daily, 9.30am-5.50pm
• The Crypt of the Capuchin Friars
  Via Vittorio Veneto, 27
  Open daily, 9am-7pm
  Entry fee: € 8.50

Visited Churches of special interest

• SantaMariaDelPopolo
• SantaMariaInTrastevere
• SantaMariaDellaVittoria
• ChiesaDiSantAgnesinAgony

1. The Art Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 287-303 ↩