Tag: #8

Xenotheka_08

I started the conversation with the most obvious words: obelisk and Rome. While “obelisk” was a good conversation starter, the word Rome opened the door of Roman history, of Roman architecture and Italy in general. To narrow down the results, I tried the combination of “obelisk in rome”. And came across a book named “Adolf…

Xenotheka_08

My old friend, de gli obelischi di Roma by Michele Mercati is an in depth treatment of the Egyptian Obelisks in Rome. So to begin with I set the topic of conversation to obelisk and started the conversation with Alice by also typing obelisk. Up came some reasonably interesting results which made me aware of…

Argument_08

The titel of the book is de gli obelischi di Roma. With the “obelischi” is meant a pointed columne, which is, as it maybe can be guessed, located in Rom. Also, the whole book is written in Italian. In this case the title reveals the topic of the book.  At the back is a contents…

Greetings_08

Reasoning first page: The eye-catching letter and the big writing differ from the rest of the book. Reasoning second page: The structured page with the clean writing is very pleasing to the eye and stands in contrary to the cursive writing on the other pages. Dilara Su Baysal | 21-928-767 | Atelier Blaas