{"id":348,"date":"2012-03-19T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2012-03-19T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:14:44","slug":"348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/348\/","title":{"rendered":"et tu Boulee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boulee&#8217;s monument to Newton, seems also to have been influenced by ancient mausolea, as I surmised while exploring the <a title=\"Art, Death, and the Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/art-death-and-the-museum\/\">roots of Mario Botta&#8217;s SFMoMA<\/a>. This time a spherical top over a windowless cylindrical base, and again, rings of Cypress trees. There&#8217;s something in these arrangements that draws together the earth and the heavens, the worldly and the eternal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_364\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/348\/94-48_01_b02\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-364\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-364\" title=\"94.48_01_b02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/94.48_01_b02-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/94.48_01_b02-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/94.48_01_b02-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/94.48_01_b02.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Botta&#39;s early plan for a ring of trees.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Newton_memorial_boullee.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Boulee's Cenotaph to Newton\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/09\/Newton_memorial_boullee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulee influenced by the ancients as well.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boulee&#8217;s monument to Newton, seems also to have been influenced by ancient mausolea, as I surmised while exploring the roots of Mario Botta&#8217;s SFMoMA. This time a spherical top over a windowless cylindrical base, and again, rings of Cypress trees. There&#8217;s something in these arrangements that draws together the earth and the heavens, the worldly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[26,54,52,14,12,53,34,9,55],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-museums","tag-architecture","tag-botta","tag-boulee","tag-death","tag-mausoleum","tag-newton","tag-renaissance","tag-sfmoma","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}