Key to Meaning in Architecture
Plan of St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome
Symbols, as explained here about painting and sculpture, can be concealed at many levels, some so deeply that only initiates would notice them. Who other than an architect could possibly have seen what Bernini did to St. Peter’s in Rome when he added the colonnades. The entire plan now resembled a key which is, of course, St. Peter’s symbol? The odds that it would resemble a key, rather than a boat, box or some other shape, are so infintessimally small that it can only have been intentional….as in art. And, as in art, it was intended for similar practitioners or those with like minds.
Posted 23 Jul 2014: BerniniTheoryVisual Perception
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