Subject: architectural design, architectural theory, art theory, art history, art museum
Year: 2016
Type: Proceeding article
Title: Diaeta” from the Short Histories of Art Museum Architecture
Author: Meri Batakoja
Abstract: Do we really enjoy, as art lovers, visiting an art museum? Is it possible, ever, to experience Picasso’s Guernica, Francisco Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra, Velázquez’s Las Meninas and many other personal and worldly favourites, while we share the experience with hundreds of others simultaneously, all standing still in front of the masterworks in crowded and unclear expectation? Can we imagine a time when the art museum as we know it today didn’t exist yet? Can we reconstruct the various spaces for displaying and contemplating art throughout history, alternative to the today’s notion of art museum architecture? What can we learn from them? “Short histories of Art Museum Architecture” is consisted of excerpts of such reconstructions of various spaces for displaying and contemplating art throughout history that revive the alternatives of the modern art museum. In this paper, the renaissance “diaeta” was being reconstructed as based upon the humanist ideal of leisure as precondition of good and healthy life. Architecturally, it was built upon the literary sources on the ancient Roman urban villa and promoted cohabitation of the arts and the nature.
Publisher: Institute of Macedonian Literature - Skopje
Relation: Popular Culture: Reading from Below
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/7489
Identifier: Batakoja, Meri. “Diaeta” from the Short Histories of Art Museum Architecture.” In Popular Culture: Reading from Below (Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference). Institute of Macedonian Literature - Skopje, 2016: 551-570.
Identifier: 978-608-4744-05-4
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7489
