"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

19 September 2010

Challenge.


As for how beautiful the edifice is, it is its own witness ... it can be confidently asserted that the ancients never built to such a height or risked challenging the sky itself.

Brunelleschi's genius was so commanding that we can surely say that he was sent from heaven to renew the art of architecture.

- Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists

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