blog 2

my second blog entry focuses on the villa rotunda a piece of Renaissance in the truest form its entrance places you in to a large and comfortable courtyard surrounded by ancient stone walls, the building itself is very formal in that every part of it is symmetrical. Each and every piece down to the steps are identical on each of the four faces it has. Even down to the steps which i counted and found to be the exact number on each side of the building. upon entering the villa one can understand that the original space had been altered to the various owners specifications, not the size dimension or shape of the rooms but the fresco's were not all original. one could tell this by comparing the ceilings with the fresco's on the walls, obviously done much later as they didn't show the same signs of age that the ceilings did. As i walked the interior i discovered that each and every room was exact in dimension to its opposite in either or all directions, and that each room stayed true to the golden mean rule.

In keeping with its symmetry the villa made me feel very grateful that I'm living in an age where such symmetry is not thought of as appealing. true its a magnificent structure and its grandeur is that of a true masterpiece but when i think of an appealing structure i stray from large goddy columns and big over sized doors. I envy mismatched lines, criss crossing features and change. As i truly feel perfection during the building of the villa equals that of misperfection is more appealing to the current views of how a structure should occupy a space. For me it represented an age in design where such symmetry was adorned yet personally it didn't appeal to me besides that i had learned about the building in school and to be standing, sitting and touching it brought a certain pleasure that is hard to describe. i guess a feeling of content came over me when walking up the villas gravel drive, something that one cannot just feel by reading or seeing pictures of it.