Sportello - Door/Window/Doc/Pynchon

[David Morris]

The grid is a famously ubiquitous modern ordering tool.  A Sportello
is  a framed limited portion of a limitless grid, and its contents are
essentially an editing of a much larger reality.

A sportello grid is essentially a tool capturing the projection of a
3D view onto a 2D plane, sort of a precursor to a photograph.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/16 Dave Monroe
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ... a framed perspective around the time of the camera obscura. A framed perspective sounds like a metaphor for an artist's vision at one level, yes?
>>
>> Prospettografi descritti dal Durer. Sportello
>
> Yep, read your post on that at the time, and today.
>
> A nice picture of a sportello here:
>
> http://www.imss.fi.it/masaccio/imodelli.html
>
> Scroll down to 'Albrecht Dürer, Lo sportello'.
>
> If you click on the picture, it brings up a much better image in a
> pop-up window.
>