![]() ![]() He thought it had become a cult, busy with creating a private language that is legible only for a selected few. More recently, the performance artist Scott Burton became fed up with the art world. In many ways his operation was closer to that of a modern advertising agency than a single artist toiling away with no purpose. Peters cathedral, he was running a giant studio employing dozens of sculptors, so of course he designed a colonnade buzzing with sculptures. ![]() At the time Bernini was designing the plaza in front of St. The orange trees were a symbol for the Medici’s, so he basically placed the clients giant logo right into the picture. Sandro Boticelli had to fit his Venus exactly into a given panel in the living room of the Villa of Castello for the Medicis. ![]() Function used to be part of the very heart of art, so all art was also close to being design: In the Renaissance, art had to work hard for its reason for being. ![]()
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