Hannah Im | Discussion Post 4
With art history, it can be challenging to visualize the regions, cities, and people one is studying. While visual art provides a good window into the conditions of society at a certain point in time, I struggle to imagine a world outside the painting’s frame. What did the streets surrounding the Domus Aurea look like? What daily conversations did Baroque-era Romans have? What would it have been like to be a twenty-year-old living during Baroque Rome? These are all questions I begin to wonder after studying art objects.
Learning about Roman society and the hierarchies within through the Fosi reading gave more context as to the type of people commissioning the Farnese gallery or the people who partook in the Quarant’ore. The passage about the function of hotels and motels in Roman society provided this additional background.
I am interested in continuing to answer such questions potentially through a 3D modeling project or an adjacent 3D modeling, especially since such projects are time-consuming and complex. Seeing the streets of Rome through “Envisioning Baroque Rome” and getting to walk (or fly) through them as an avatar helped contextualize.
I am less interested in Rome, but I think exploring the intersection between European Baroque and East Asia through trade is an interesting idea to pursue through 3D modeling. Potential questions to explore surround who the key players were in establishing this connection, what spaces in which interactions between the West and East occurred, and what art-making looked like.