Martino Bassi’s “Dispareri in Materia d’Architettura et Perspettiva” are, on the one hand, a polemic against Tibaldi’s work on the Milan Cathedral, but on the other hand, above all, they represent “the most surprising and interesting example of the seriousness with which the position of the point of view in the surface of the painting…
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Given the rather strange and specific nature of the content of my old book I felt there were multiple aspects of the book I could isolate and try to find new books relating to that specific aspect. Since “Della transportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V» is a book about obelisks I thought…
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I began the third task by familiarizing myself with the search engine “Alice”. I entered various search terms that interested me in connection with Sebastiano Serlio, such as “woman”, “sport”, “capital”, “column”, “glass”. I quickly realized that the selection was huge. I tried to choose terms that were not directly associated with Serlio. For example,…
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At first, I wanted to find out if my book or the author where mentioned in other books. I knew that Palladio was a wellknown person, so I started by putting in his name. I realised very quickly, that he was mentioned in a very big number of books. Even the title of his book…
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Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 At a started the assignment I wondered what topics I should begin with. I decided to brainstorm a little. The first step I took was write the whole title and choosing some of the words. For example the obvious one in this case would…
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My book is called „Neuherfürgegebene Kriegsarchitectur“ and is about new ideas of fortress architecture and war buildings. When I used Alice for the first time, to find books that are somehow related to my book, I first thought of key words to use. Since my book is about war, I tried this key word first….
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The research for this task was quite complicated in the beginning, because I tried to use Alice in a “learning-by-doing” way, and didn’t fully get the system at first. After experimenting a bit and changing the topics, brains, etc. I developed a work flow and was able to do my research more precisely. I mainly used…
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First I wrote down some words, that I thought to stand in connection with the topic of my book: Fortification, attack, defense, warfare, attack, etc. Next I had planned to type them into Alice and get my results. Easy as that. But I had some trouble figuring Alice out. It took me a while but…
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Through this new task, I was able to familiarise myself with Xenotheka’s “Ask Alice” search machine. To do so, I chose 4 words that summarize my book “Reigle Générale d’Architecture des cinq manières de colonnes” by Jean Bullant, namely: architecture, columns, drawings and orders. The aim was to look for works related to my book,…
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The previous task gave me the basis for this task, in order to make good use of the Xenotheka digital library, I thought about which themes stood out in my book “Le Theatre de l’Art de Charpentier”. As I found out in the second assignment, it is about the art of the carpenter. The wooden…