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Discussion - Encyclopedia > Duomo di Milano
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Bill Sovereign (printcollector2@aol.com)
4th March 2009 |
I would like to see large study .jpg pictures of every statue of the Duomo of Milan. Then we will compare the faces and costumes with fifteenth and sixteenth century fresco, paintings and literature, including Paulo Giovio's "Elogia."
To do that, we will need very special pictures taken at just the right light angles to enhance facial features. The Duomo statues I have seen are all real people and I suspect you have images of historical personages including politicians, religious persons and humanists.
If I had the time, talent and treasure, I would use a normal lens and a helicopter. I am using IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.net/) and zooming in and out of large jpg photos comparing different pictures side by side. IrfanView also reads WGA's attachments to jpg files. I save, read and compare The Web Gallery of Art's pictures with Wikipedia's historical data.
I don't suppose the bishop wants a helicopter zooming around the piazza, so, in focus telephoto pictures from the street will do the job for now. I can do it with Google Earth's pictures now, but a complete set would prove what I am only suspecting from this side of the planet. Milan has been a major Italian art city as long as Florence and is comparable to Rome. Ya, when she got to Rome it was a cow pasture. When she left, the Comacini finished the job! |
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