Perspective Trick
March 20th, 2011This English Gothic church seems to use the Rennaisance technique of perspective distortion to enhance its presence on Church Street.
Art, Death, and the Museum
June 20th, 2009Early features of Mario Botta’s San Francisco Museum of Modern Art bear resemblance to those of the Mausoleum of Emperor Augustus in Rome. Parallels between museums and mausolea are rife in the history of the de Young as well. What is it about art and death that moves us to inter them so?