The Window

Description

If, since the beginning of the Renaissance, art has never stopped inventing new figurative scenarios based on the window, it is because the window is so closely associated with two fundamental elements of painting itself: light and the frame. This program contemplates the use of the window as a passage between the indoor and outdoor worlds. Topics include landscape, in the form of a veduta, or view; light, as illumination or metaphor; glass, transparent or made opaque; and objects and figures, as bridges between interior and exterior. The window as anti-veduta is also considered, as are cinematic and photographic analogs to the veduta.

Runtime

27 min

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Subjects

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Date of Publication

[2006], c2002

Database

Films on Demand

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