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Cortile del Bramante and Santa Maria della Pace . A fragmented and contradictory whole depicts the translation from Donato Bramante´s high Renaissance vocabulary to Da Cortona´s posterior intervention at Santa Maria della Pace and its cloisters. The diptych registers a shift in urban orientation, with a hinge between its parts marked by the central octagonal drum. .
Entering the church and deambulating along the axis of the 2-bay nave to the cubic courtyard, Da Cortona´s intervention carefully aligns its beholder with the center columns of the preexisting chiostro. There is a transition from a centered subject to a centered column. .
Drawn in ink and pencil, this piece investigates the relation between phenomena and abstraction for the transformation of the subject along the buildings, using a composite of reversed and regular axonometrics, one-point perspectives and section perspectives. . The Robert A.M. Stern Summer Program. Summer 2019.