A group of spectators or people observing is also known as an audience, this term is used a lot when talking about people who are watching a movie or play. The audience is a tool for performers or artists that can be used to gage the success or failure of a work or performance. The ultimate goal is to be successful and pleasing and therefore the challenge is to make something appeal to many different people in many ways. Architects are like performers in a way that they create wonderful pieces of architecture based on their period of design that is appealing to an audience of peers and spectators who interact with the space. "This kind of mystical presence [Glory of St. Ignatius] appealed greatly to the southern Germans, who remained loyal to the Church of Rome and rejected Luther's reforms. In the richly embellished pilgrimage and mosaic churches built in Bavaria in southern Germany in the early eighteenth century, such rhapsodic illusionism was pushed even farther." [Roth 405] The illusions produced by Padre Andrea Pozzo on the Cathedral ceiling was a huge hit with said audience of southern Germany, its wonderful fresco paintings were something new and interesting to the people and therefore made it quite a successful addition to the overall architecture.
A character is an element in a story or situation that can affect an outcome or situation in said story. Character can also be used as an adjective when describing something or someone, when a person says something is unique or interesting they said it ‘has character’. In a way our new nature/celebration project in studio can be described as having character because each and every one in unique because everyone chose different pieces of nature as inspiration, like my stick-cell phones formatted drawings on my natural objects. Also I found character this week in the images we had to look up when examining furniture from various blogs in Suzanne's class, each piece different from the next as we picked out the ones we wanted to draw. "... Nicholas Fouquet, had assembled to build and landscape his own private country house outside Paris at Vaux-le-Victomte in 1657-1661. Fouquet had made the fatal strategic error of building a chateau much finer than anything owned by the king..." [Roth 417] A real character in the story of the French Baroque period is that of King Louis XIV, he was very prideful and because someone had a much finer home/palace then he had he devised a way to confiscate the home for himself so no one could live better then the king himself. This character effect made way for the construction of the Palace of Versailles and the gardens that expanded across France's town of Versailles. "[Cappella della Santissima Sindone] On this ring rests a hexagonal arcade that forms the base of a dome. This done, however, was unlike anything ever built before, for it consists of six segmental arches resting on an arcade, and six smaller segmental arches resting on the crowns of the first six..." [Roth 413] The entire period of the Baroque/Rococo was a time of character, everything was built in order to break the rules and become unique to the people and in accomplishments, the architect of the Cappella della Santissima Sindone and its dome, Guarini, created a dome unlike any other that had character in it based on its complex structure.
A transfer or bridge between an event or happening is called a transition, this method of change happens especially when talking about the history and stylistic changes for architecture’s history though is not always very drastic. A big example of this is the drastic transition between the tightly wound rulebook of the Renaissance to the frivolous Baroque in Italy and France. “Following a period when the emphasis was on strict instructional approaches, a new religious mood evolved characterized by its emotional, ebullient impact.” [Blakemore 152] Blakemore talks about the differences between the two periods of architecture and art, suggesting that maybe religion had a play in this emotional transition that lead to pieces like the Palace of Versailles in France and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
According to Dictionary dot net, a datum is, “Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.” Or also, “The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.” Frankly I had a hard time understanding these definitions until I put in design terms of how something called a datum line is a horizontal measured line sued for reference in a space. This concept of datum is used a lot in surveying land and as a design element to connect a space together like when I used in the wall project a while back.
In conclusion all these words are great synonyms for describing the period of the Baroque and Rococo in Italy and France and its transition from the set rules if the Renaissance period of architecture. [Re]visions were made to these set rules so the transition in styles could happen, the changes were created by important motivation characters in politics of the countries and the architects with their views. Along with these characters that created and commissioned these structures came the audience that experienced the datum spaces back in time and even know as people tour to learn of architecture and its history as styles changed.
::Sources::
History of Interior Design and Furniture By Blakemore
Dictionary Definition By www.dictonary.net
Understanding Architecture By Roth
Drawings and Photographs By myself
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