![]() ![]() He thought it had become a cult, busy with creating a private language that is legible only for a selected few. ![]() More recently, the performance artist Scott Burton became fed up with the art world. In many ways his operation was closer to that of a modern advertising agency than a single artist toiling away with no purpose. Peters cathedral, he was running a giant studio employing dozens of sculptors, so of course he designed a colonnade buzzing with sculptures. At the time Bernini was designing the plaza in front of St. The orange trees were a symbol for the Medici’s, so he basically placed the clients giant logo right into the picture. Sandro Boticelli had to fit his Venus exactly into a given panel in the living room of the Villa of Castello for the Medicis. Function used to be part of the very heart of art, so all art was also close to being design: In the Renaissance, art had to work hard for its reason for being. ![]()
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