Situating perspectiva in Renaissance Florence. Casamenti, piani e montagne e paesi d’ogni ragione (2021)
Alberto Faliva (Author)
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
Volume: 29
Pages: 219-238
This paper examines the social and geographical contexts of architectural landscape in Renaissance Italy, as one possible influence on developments in pictorial representation. A key factor in such relationships concerns the responses of architectural language to different urban and rural contexts during the Renaissance, most clearly characterized by the siting and visibility of suburban villas in the Tuscan landscape. In this arrangement of ideally situated buildings in a landscape, mediated by terraces and geometrically organized gardens and surrounding fields, perspective serves not only as a means of reinforcing the privileged position of the viewing ‘subject’ but also correspondingly communicates to the observer a field of surveillance of the imagined owner /occupant from the villa particularly during times of conflict or dispute. The objective of this contribution is only a hypothesis to work on: these hybrid architectural forms, and their varying perspectival representations, are built within a changing visual panorama of manmade and natural elements where the owner often consciously sought to enhance the importance of his social status, by parading the villa a sort of changeable dress depending upon circumstances or occasion. The people of Florence for example, located within the walls of the city in the Arno valley and surrounded by villas in the foot-hills of Tuscany, would have been acutely aware of these changes manifested through the transformations of landscape and built-form. Consequently, all the villas, with their fortified and classic elements, become a living landscape possessing different characters analogous to the dress and decorum of their owners. This gave rise, within the visual field of the perspectival framework, a hierarchically structured natural, geographical and social tableau.
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