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Baroque Visions Of The Temple Of Jerusalem, Michael Rabens
Baroque Visions Of The Temple Of Jerusalem, Michael Rabens
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The ancient Jewish temple in Jerusalem has excited interest among artists, architects, and scholars for many centuries. There has been a steady stream of attempts to reconstruct its appearance, despite an overwhelming lack of physical evidence.
Compare And Contrast: Mark Robbins' Borrowed Landscape, Pat Morton, Mark Robbins
Compare And Contrast: Mark Robbins' Borrowed Landscape, Pat Morton, Mark Robbins
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Project by Mark Robbins
Text by Pat Morton
Shakkei, or borrowed landscape, is the Japanese art of visually incorporating distant elements of the landscape into a garden design. In a shakkei garden, a tableau contained within the garden integrates a far view of mountains, trees, or the horizon. The landscape outside the garden is "borrowed" to create the illusion of an infinite expanse of space and view.