Circling Round Vitruvius, Linear Perspective, and the Design of Roman Wall Painting

Small, Jocelyn Penny

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“…Regarding the transition from inside to outside, Throughout human history we have seen various attempts to visually overcome the confined spaces of walled rooms. In Roman wall paintings a recurring motif is the picturing of outdoor landscapes as if seen through a window or an opening in a wall, like in the preserved paintings from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale dated to 50-40 BC (Small, 2019). This "seeing through" solid surfaces exploits the 2D plane to achieve a visual extension of the 3D space.…”

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Museums, Artefacts and Cultural Heritage Sites

Liestøl¹

2021

JOMI

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The relationships between museums, artefacts and original sites are complex. How may we use mobile augmented reality (AR) to bridge the gaps between both indoors and outdoors exhibitions as well as the opposition between central collections and the more peripheral sites of the original artefacts? In this paper we present two main cases (the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo and the Calmecac Museum in Mexico City) where we have experimented with bringing a digital copy of the displaced artefact back to its original environment, as well as bringing a digital copy of the original environment into the displaced or isolated object in the museum exhibition. Further, we report on a solution to solve the problem with indoor positioning (IPS) and how it can be seamlessly combined with GPS–based outdoor positioning for smooth transitions between inside and outside. Finally, these cases were tested with three different hardware platforms - tablets, smartphones and smartglasses.

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Museums, Artefacts and Cultural Heritage Sites

Liestøl¹

2021

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“…Recent research covers De Architectura's standing both in the humanities and in the sciences. Further to a publication on Vitruvius as an author [21], related studies cover a contemporary reading of the opening chapter of De Architectura [22], the literary significance of the treatise [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and its raced-gendered narrative [31], the use of building materials and construction methods as media forming the identity of the Roman Empire [32], and Vitruvius's geographical system [33] and design (e.g., linear perspective [34], Roman temples [35], the Basilica at Fano [36,37] and acoustic vessels [38]). Studies related to the last of these themes include the geological analysis of tuff and travertine in stone masonry [39][40][41], mortar [42][43][44] and concrete technology [45][46][47], notably seawater concrete [48][49][50][51][52].…”

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Architecture, Engineering and Building Science: The Contemporary Relevance of Vitruvius’s De Architectura

Bianco

2023

Sustainability

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Conferences worldwide focus on a range of disciplines relating to the construction of the built environment. They tend to emphasize either the art or the science of building, the former focusing on architectural theory and design while the latter targets a range of topics from civil and/or building engineering to building physics. Vitruvius’s De Architectura Libri Decem is a seminal treatise more than two millennia old which addresses these themes in a holistic manner. This text remains valid today for students and professionals engaged in architecture and building engineering. Translated as Ten Books on Architecture, it not only presents an overall view of the disciplines of town planning, architecture and civil engineering, along with the qualifications required to practice them, but also addresses building materials, civil-engineering structures and the science influencing buildings. Although grounded in the practice and technology of Ancient Rome, the principles put forward in this treatise are still valid nowadays for effective, sustainable architectural-engineering design based on rigorous education and good knowledge of building materials and construction. Vitruvius’s definition of architecture—the one still customarily used—is an inclusive philosophical statement on the essence of building for humanity to house humanity. It recalls the symbiotic relation between architecture and building engineering that is often forgotten in the contemporary emphasis on specialization.

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“…102-5). Yet the theory of vanishing vertical axis applied in the Roman context has been contested by a recent study by Small (2019), which suggested that concentric circles, grids, or a combination were more likely used for the design of Roman painted walls. The current study investigates, rather than painting techniques, the religious meaning the perspective potentially convey.…”

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Vision and Site: Revisiting a Pure Land Cave of Dunhuang

Zhou,

2024

Religions

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Buddhist Utopian vision shaped the art of Pure Land; so did many other factors, including the actual locale. Taking Mogao Cave 172 as the main case study, this article deciphers a visual paradigm of a Pure Land painting and cave in Dunhuang (Gansu, China) from the high Tang period (710–780 CE). By analyzing the visual contents and compositions, the painting medium, the cave spaces, and the cliff site, this study investigates the ways in which the architectural images and spaces in Cave 172 helped to convey the invitation to Pure Land. A close reading of the Western Pure Land painting in Cave 172 reveals the spatial construct of the Buddhist paradise that encouraged a transformative viewing experience. A situated visual analysis of Cave 172 with its auxiliary cave and neighboring caves illustrates the historical procedure in which Pure Land imageries were further integrated with the architectural spaces of caves and cave suites. As this study demonstrates, strategies of spatial layering, self-symmetry and scaling, and plastic and multimedia practices of cave-making enhanced the situatedness of the utopian vision.

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Circling Round Vitruvius, Linear Perspective, and the Design of Roman Wall Painting

Cited by 3 publications

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Museums, Artefacts and Cultural Heritage Sites

Museums, Artefacts and Cultural Heritage Sites

Architecture, Engineering and Building Science: The Contemporary Relevance of Vitruvius’s De Architectura

Vision and Site: Revisiting a Pure Land Cave of Dunhuang

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