BETWEEN MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE
After our history seminars, Rita found really interest and curious this comparison… So she start to do more researches and try to find more similiraties in these two subjects which in the first appearance look so differents…
Santa Maria Novella in Florence – Leon Battisti Alberti
Ration 1:2 and the square as harmonic regulators of the facade
The secret of its beauty and harmony lies in the strict grid of propotions that binds the parties together and these to the whole.
Santa Maria del Fiore – Brunelleschi
Guillaume Dufay wrote the motet Nuper rosarum flores at the consecration of Santa Maria del Fiore. (6:4:2:3)
If we observe the structure of the florentine cathedral we find again this numbers: the modularity is given by the 28 arms, the nave consist in 6 modules, transects of 2 moduls each for a total of 4,the apse of 2 modules, and 3 module separete the ceiling from the dome.Back then the 6:4:2:3 pattern already seen in the motet.
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