Watercolour on paper
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Lecture Diagram 38 Method a Tuscan Capital after Lorenzo Sirigatti and a Circle attributed to Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and Joseph Moxon
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
architecture
capital
column
diagrammatic
education, science and learning
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
formal qualities
inscriptions
mathematics
Moxon, Joseph
named individuals
notes and diagrams
people
perspective
Sirrigatti, Lorenzo
society
symbols and personifications
<p>Like many of Turner's lecture diagrams, this is much simpler than its source - a treatise by Lorenzo Sirigatti (misspelt by Turner), which it fails to represent adequately. Turner misunderstood Sirigatti's work, which he criticised as unnecessarily complex: 'My position [is] that the complicated appearances which simple forms are often made to assume tend more to ingeniously perplex than to clear the way to a study.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 1992</em></p>
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Lecture Diagram 38: Method for a Tuscan Capital (after Lorenzo Sirigatti) and a Circle (attributed to Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and Joseph Moxon)
support: 667 × 985 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Like many of Turner's lecture diagrams, this is much simpler than its source - a treatise by Lorenzo Sirigatti (misspelt by Turner), which it fails to represent adequately. Turner misunderstood Sirigatti's work, which he criticised as unnecessarily complex: 'My position [is] that the complicated appearances which simple forms are often made to assume tend more to ingeniously perplex than to clear the way to a study.'</p>
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Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques architecture capital column diagrammatic education, science and learning emotions, concepts and ideas features formal qualities inscriptions mathematics Moxon, Joseph named individuals notes and diagrams people perspective Sirrigatti, Lorenzo society symbols and personifications
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