Conférences en ligne : « Circular Thinking: The Drawing Compass as a Tool of Premodern Creation in Europe », Warburg Institute, 10 et 11 juin 2021
‘Circular Thinking’ is a two-day online event devoted to the drawing compass (or ‘pair of compasses’), an essential tool of the premodern artist that came to represent divine Creation in Jewish and Christian (both Greek and Latin) exegetical traditions. Although now associated primarily with architecture, the compass was a transmedial instrument, integral to a range of artisanal operations. According to the artists’ handbooks of Theophilus and Cennini, the instrument was ready-to-hand, yet evidence of its...