She previously taught Asian Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. MICROCOSM meaning: 1 : something (such as a place or an event) that is seen as a small version of something much larger 2 : in a greatly reduced size or form. Microcosm and Macrocosm Exhibition text by Jacquline Chao, Senior Curator, the Crow Museum of Asian Art. A simple garden, of the type in which Augustine's conversion took place, in saintly contrast with the luxurious gardens and grottoes of pagan debauchery. The model is designed to represent the town in microcosm. Medieval art, architecture and society were saturated with religion and infused with symbols. This simple picture seemed to reveal a deep and fundamental truth about man and the world, and its importance for Renaissance architects can hardly be overestimated. As a proof of the harmony and perfection of the human body he described how a well-built man fits with extended hands and feet exactly into the most perfect geometrical figures, circle and square. Vitruvius 'had introduced his third book on Temples with the famous remarks on the proportions of the human figure, which should be reflected in the proportions. the four stages of the theories: simple historical progression paralleling modern art history simple darwinian evolution simple lamarckian cultural evolution hybridic meme-organism evolution Everyone who took biology in high school has heard of Lamarck: he is the laughing stock against whom Darwin triumphs. Rudolf Wittkower discusses their significance in his 1949 book on Architectural principles in the age of humanism. Illustrations of this type were used in many editions of Vitruvius and Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by them. In Shakespeare's Richard II, Act 3 Scene 4, the king's neglect the garden of England is compared with the care of his own garden. The exhibitions title Microcosm and Macrocosm refers to a vision of the cosmos where the part (microcosm) is a reflection of the whole (macrocosm). The illustration shows a man drawn within a square marked with the signs of the zodiac. 1 : a little world especially : the human race or human nature seen as an epitome (see epitome sense 1) of the world or the universe 2 : a community or other unity that is an epitome (see epitome sense 2) of a larger unity The suburb has been the microcosm of the city. A common mode of thought in the Middle Ages was to draw an analogy between a microcosm and macrocosm.
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