{"id":931,"date":"2011-07-12T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=931"},"modified":"2011-07-12T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T01:27:43","slug":"mysterious-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"mysterious tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/strange-tower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-932\" title=\"strange tower\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/strange-tower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/strange-tower.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/strange-tower-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/strange-tower-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and ninety-three: <\/strong>I guess it&#8217;s going to be a hit-and-miss kind of week. I rushed through this sketch inspired by a theoretical building design by the 18th-century French architect \u00c9tienne-Louis Boull\u00e9e. I saw the original in the study gallery of the Uffizi in Florence a few years ago, and stumbled across a snapshot this evening. My sketch in no way represents the real work of Boull\u00e9e, a neo-classicist who reveled in symmetry and monumental grandeur. It would be worth exploring more of his designs, when I have more time to tailor the forms and shadows. They&#8217;re amazing. Check out a few of his drawings at <a href=\"http:\/\/myartcanon.net\/works_on_paper\/built-and-unbuilt-temples-by-etienne-louis-boullee\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/myartcanon.net\/works_on_paper\/built-and-unbuilt-temples-by-etienne-louis-boullee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and ninety-three: I guess it&#8217;s going to be a hit-and-miss kind of week. I rushed through this sketch inspired by a theoretical building design by the 18th-century French architect \u00c9tienne-Louis Boull\u00e9e. I saw the original in the study gallery of the Uffizi in Florence a few years ago, and stumbled across a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[71,12,32,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}