A fascinating account of the use and meaning of visual and spatial distortions in seventeenth-century art and architecture
During the Catholic Reformation, patrons, artists, architects, and viewers, especially in Rome, were strongly drawn to visual and spatial distortions or "deformations"--works of art and architecture that were designed to be visually incomprehensible, at least initially. From Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro...
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