Number, Spoils, and Relics: Totemic Images in a Mnemotopia
| Autor: | Ann Marie Borys |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Architectural Education. 54:28-34 |
| ISSN: | 1531-314X 1046-4883 |
| DOI: | 10.1162/104648800564707 |
| Popis: | At northern Italian Counter-Reformation pilgrimage sites known as sacri monti (sacred mountains), the traditional focus on a site made sacred by events of religious importance is replaced by a condition of exile to a remote and difficult landscape. Judith Wolin argues thatsacri monti as a group can be understood as mnemotopias, “memory places,” whose primary function “is to allow the revisitation of ‘remembered’ events.” An unusual site with similar intentions, designed in the 1590s by Vincenzo Scamozzi as part of a villa project, shares some defining qualities ofsacri monti. Yet Scamozzi's project is unique; the goal of this paper is to show how Scamozzi participates in the mnemotopic tradition without employing explicit representational narrative. In its place stand number correspondence, a narrative use of the orders, and a layered speculation on bodies and fragments. |
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