Drawing of the Week
The Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, dates from the 5th century but has been restored many times over the centuries, it boasts a beautiful twelith-century bell-tower and ist preceded by an interesting eleventh century portico. The church faces the founctain of the same name sculpted by F.Moratti (1700-1721). In Le Corbuiser's Vers Une Architecture, Corbu stated that in comparison with the luxurious Renaissance Catherdal, this church which serve the poor people, expresses the extraordinary dignity of mathematical calcuation and the invincible power of its scale and ratio......(p.138, Vers Une Architecture)
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