{"id":32,"date":"2010-09-18T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/2010\/09\/18\/perugino-perspective\/"},"modified":"2010-09-18T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T14:12:39","slug":"perugino-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/2010\/09\/18\/perugino-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Perugino\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/arrow.dit.ie\/engschmecart\/1\/\">inaugural lecture<\/a> as a Professor of the Dublin Institute of Technology in September 2008 was the highlight of my career and I spent a lot of time preparing for it. I wanted to refer to Pietro Perugino\u2019s painting of \u2018Christ handing over the keys to St. Peter\u2019 from the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican, 1482, and I prepared the illustration as a pencil drawing or study. I had seen and taken photographs of the painting while on a holiday in Rome. I used a straight edge in setting out the square grid base of the scene in perspective, much as I believe the artist and his team must have done. At a later stage I used software to add a small amount of tinting and to superimpose silhouettes of some of the foreground characters of the original painting.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_103\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-slide-400px.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103\" alt=\"Photo of Jim McGovern giving his inaugural lecture as a Professof of Dublin Institute of Technology\" src=\"http:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-slide-400px-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-slide-400px-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-slide-400px.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim McGovern giving his inaugural lecture as a Professof of Dublin Institute of Technology<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I set out to complete the diagram quite roughly. Preparing it in detail, as an engineer might do, would have been too great an undertaking in the context of what was needed. I found, however, that I was drawn into the detail and into an appreciation of the mastery of that detail in the original work. My study contains visual contradictions in the detail. In Perugino\u2019s masterpiece there is a wonderful harmony of science, technology, architecture and art.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-study-600x351.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-study-600x351-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil sketch based on Perugino&#039;s painting of Christ handing over the keys to Saint Peter\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-study-600x351-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/Perugino-study-600x351.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A study of Perugino\u2019s perspective<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My inaugural lecture as a Professor of the Dublin Institute of Technology in September 2008 was the highlight of my career and I spent a lot of time preparing for it. I wanted to refer to Pietro Perugino\u2019s painting of \u2018Christ handing over the keys to St. Peter\u2019 from the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican, 1482, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[6,15,27,37,39,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}