Geo-locating Ruskin’s  Mornings in Florence  and Jeanneret’s Sketches and Watercolours from his 1907 Voyage

This paper shows how the application of geo-location tools facilitates the analysis of Jeanneret/Le Corbusier’s experience of medieval art and architecture during his 1907 Voyage to Florence. While Jeanneret/Le Corbusier’s 1911 Voyage is better known, his 1907 Voyage provides an opportunity to study the cross-historical influence of medieval art, architecture and urbanism on the development of Early Modernism. Methods of analysis that employ digital technologies allow for new explorations of this body of work. Geo-location tools are particularly applicable as they reveal patterns and themes that would otherwise go unrecognised. Several of these will be discussed as to their suitability in support of this research.

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J. Kirk Irwin

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 12-17

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.3

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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J. Brillhart 2016 Voyage Le Corbusier: Drawing on the Road W. W. Norton and Company New York
H. A. Brooks 1997 Le Corbusier: The Formative Years. University of Chicago Press Chicago
J. Ruskin 1891 Mornings in Florence: Being Simple Studies of Christian Art for English Travellers New York
M Trachtenberg 1988‘What Brunelleschi Saw: Monument and Site at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47 14 44
M. Trachtenberg 1997 Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence Cambridge University Press Cambridge

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[1] J. Brillhart 2016 Voyage Le Corbusier: Drawing on the Road W. W. Norton and Company New York

[2] H. A. Brooks 1997 Le Corbusier: The Formative Years. University of Chicago Press Chicago

[3] J. Ruskin 1891 Mornings in Florence: Being Simple Studies of Christian Art for English Travellers New York

[4] M Trachtenberg 1988‘What Brunelleschi Saw: Monument and Site at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47 14 44

[5] M. Trachtenberg 1997 Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence Cambridge University Press Cambridge

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Geo-locating Ruskin’s Mornings in Florence and Jeanneret’s Sketches and Watercolours from his 1907 Voyage