Publication details
Vzdušný balón, koule a zážitek prostoru (filmová prezentace)
| Title in English | Air balloon, sphere and space experience (a presentation in film) |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
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| Description | In 1783, the architect of Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen, Charles de Wailly, created the project of a monument to celebrate the take-off of the first balloon filled with hydrogen, which is preserved in the collections of the Vienna Albertina as a remarkable and high-quality drawing. At the same time, however, the late Enlightenment enthusiasm for the progress of science in infinite space and the associated improvement of humanity was equally reflected in painting and in late Baroque Roman festivities. At the same time, de Wailly, along with other visionary architects, thematized the image of the sphere in architecture as part of the solar system. The balloon and the sphere have now become symbols of a new experience of measurability of space, and it is no wonder that their metaphor can be found in Central European real architecture at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. "A new regime of sensibility has been established, which no longer wants to rely on the multiplication of impressions, but on the unity of great spiritual intuition" (Jean Starobinski). |
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