Ver...Verts...Versailles

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Dunlop, Mitford, Bryant
for the love Deidre...
evoke something reborn Verlet
exact lines so evedently important.

L'approach, L'autumn, the royal chase
First enlarge Louis XIV, party,
Nine porcelaine offshoots,
Marble everything, hearts too.

Clagny, add water, bring to 1701
redecorate. Now, le Chappelle:

Small cabinets, pompadour, of Berries
The Queen, M. Leszinska
Louis the XVI
Marie Antoinette and the game of make believe

Resurection
Le reine, Le Rhine, LeNotre
Fantasy flight night, Le Chambre
Rendez-vous

Alceste, The Enveloppe, the place of arms
Fireworks, flotillas, Grotte
Parterre du Norde, Satory in construction
Stables, windows, beds
Aerial photograph, furnature
reconstruction

lithograph machine, Aquaduct, ground
St. Louis King, Marley Chambre?
1701--Bull's Eye Salon

Duchesse now (private recollection)
Vivien Bourgogne Gobert and the cabinet work
Louis XV roofscape garden axis
Dormer of Bains, Stockholm
The stairs of ambessadeurs.

Try something small, garden front, Opera
Banquet Hall, le Juene
Le Bassin d'Apollon, the Canal
an illuminated wedding, Bust, le Compte
Bibliotheque

Vigee Mme Le Brun, scandal (1783)Houdon
Plantation (M. de V.)
Belevedere (Georges Saad), Temple of l'amour
Engraved by Nee

Chevalier de l'Espinasse
Try another...Grotto, Chatelet
Plan, block, floor
Small cabinets, endpapers
Archives, Musee, Bureau

Building, tree, organic growth
supreame glory
Tout les jours comedies
Gallery of colonnades
fountains, M. Dunlop, fountains
Le Frondes, le soleil

Historic tourists pantomime
strange oversight untouched
Daughters of France, odd bourbons seen
Madame de Sevigne
Charming centre of government seat

Pergola arbor disappeared
Great mouldering palace
conversation, a curious fact
Le Service de Batiments

Fond of close green thing
Listen she falls slowly, last
Cry rain fountain water

Batsford, Rainbird, Dauphin
there will always be difficulty
a certain point, a knoll of length
dominating three facades
gliding ornament, avenues above
one hundred steps, among the trees
Orangeries (of love?)
not yet arrived luxuriance
offered coup l'oeil
approach coming ediface
small mouth of excellence unrolls
Lytton Strachey

Birds search

delicate mist

tack tacking spring

abolotion
dead son
Artois
Abbe
lies
room encrusted diamonds
murmur mob

discontents
sea
humanity
at three o'clock
Rambouillet

eini, meni, minei, mo

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Time, Authorship, and Ottomans

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Okay I am back here at the NAC...Still my Campidoglio "piece" is not done. (Somehow I feel by renaming "papers" "pieces" i will be less prone to writers block. Go figure.)

With great relief, I found my flash drive was still here (Thank you, whoever decided not to take it. You are a saint.)

I just finished reading "What is an Author" by Michel Foucault in order to "assess authorship in Foucault's terms". I think it brought on an LSD flashback, effectively disabling my ability for rational thought for several days.

Professor Gutman's Architectural History class has moved up to Chapter 19...the Ottoman Empire Islam and the changing of Constantinople to Istanbul around 1453. I am trying to find out about what kind of calender the would have used and if the Persians told time the same way...you know 12 hours...Am and PM.

International Studs, Wastestreams, And Rome

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Hello.


It's a snowy Friday evening and I am here in the NAC computer lab getting ready to pound out a "piece" on Michael Angelo's Campidoglio (aka Capitoline)that was meant to be done last Tuesday(yikes! Please forgive me Professor Gutman, if you are reading this...Instead of working on this yesterday I went to an awesome producton of Harvey Firestein's International Stud put on buy CCNY's theater students)

Also new...Tuesday CUNY+NYC Dept of Sanity had a kick off event for 2008 Sustainable CCNY Committees.


Last night Mark brought over some awefully sweet wine and one of my all time favorite films. Amayas came over and we agrued a little about early civilizations and whether or not hunters and gatherers are "un-civilized"--well, Mark and I argued (comme d'habitude). Amayas got bored and left.

CCNY MFA Group Show

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Dennis Delgado

Filipa Farraia


Glenda Hydler


Jang Soon Im

Rachel Jobe

Seung Ae Kim


Sun Kim

Anthony Miler


Nancy Palubniak ak ak ak

Shani Peters

Patricia Reibesehl

Arthur Skowron

Miranda Small


Dessida Snyder

Erik Sommer

Mary Sweeney

Pei Chum Tsai

Priska Wenger

Yu Zhang

asl, Martini, Me Shell

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Last night Amayas and I met up with Krishna and Virgina and some of her friends at a hooka bar on the lower east side...the music was a bit loud and I began to wish I knew someASL which coinsidentally has the same acronym as the Art Students League.

Ok...i've spent a couples of hours (or days) at the Met
Checking out the Studiolo
of the Duccal(sp?)Palace of humanist Federico Montefeltro at Gubbio, an entire room panelled (sp?) in an elaborate, intarsia trompe l'oeil from the woodshop of architect Giorgio Martini (circa 14??AD).

http://12.151.120.44/explore/studiolo/studiolo_hmpg.html

http://www.jstor.org/view/00261521/sp050877/05x7277w/0

http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300085167

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/f/francesc/index.html

http://www.le-marche.com/Marche/html/martini.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_di_Giorgio_Martini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_da_Montefeltro

Art Collectives, Lexis, and Convertables

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Hello...I should be reading chapters 17, 18 and 19 of Kostof's A History of Architecture. Instead, I am researching art collectives on LexisNexis. Finally, I have access to this thing. It seems like it may have been outmoded by Google though.

Has anyone seen the movie, Three Kings? I had heard it wasn't that good but I saw it a few nights ago and it was WAY better than I expected.

Spain and the N. E. W. World

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Oh...Mon Dieu! It's the year of the Rat!!

There is so much to read (Now I wish I hadn't cheated my way through Coach Kirby's World History Class.):

Piazza San Marco

Basilica San Marco

Doge's Palace

Libreria


Loggetta

La Zecca

Vignola

Il Gesu


Pre-Columbian

indigenous

"reconquest"


Colonial


Absolute power

Syncretism

ceremonial city

zocalo


Neo-Platonic

Divine Beauty

ideal geometry

Fernando and Isabella


Carlos (Charles) V

Montezuma (Moctezuma?)

Hernan Cortez


Palace of Charles V



Huitzilopochtli

Tlaloc

Palace of Montezuma
Tenochtitlan

Mexico(D. F.)City

1500 A.D.

Mexico City Landmarks

Saturday in the Library

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I'm here at the Cohen Library with Richard Rojas, talking about volcanos and looking at Gallery websites.

Still way behind in the reading for ARCH 622/242:

School of Athens

Palazzo del Te

Porta Pia

Tribune

Palladio

thermal windows

tromp l'oeil

Jacopo Sansovino

Carlo Borromeo

Pallazzo Chiericati

Villa Barbaro

Villa Rotunda

Teatro Olympico

Church of Redentore

Florence, Bramante, and Mannerism

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Okay...I am taking a course in Architecture history starting with 1144 AD. Turns out, (quelle suprise)there is much I don't/didn't know.

Coliseum

trabeated

arcuated

De re aedificatoria

Brunelleschi

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo

Cosimo de' Medici

Ospedale degli Innocenti

Santa Maria Novella

Chruch of Sant' Andrea

Church of San Francisco

Santa Maria dei Fiori

Arnolfo di Cambio

Church of San Lorenzo

Spiro Kostof


Sir John Summerson

Vitruvian Man

Divine Proportions

Ideal Geometry

divine beauty

harmonic proportions

Neo-Platonic

martyrium

Donanto Bramante

Leonardo Da Vinci

Pope Nicholas V

Pope Julius II

Santa Maria della Pace


San Pietro in Montorio

St. Peter's Basilica

View of an Idea City

"Sforzinda"

Palazzo Caprini

Francesco di Giorgio

Mannerism

Council of Trent

Michealangelo Buonarroti

Giuliano Romano

Pope Paul III

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Campidoglio