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Mojan Kavosh
2025
Image 1. Via del Corso, Rome: The pictorial conceived as enlargable nodes within a consistent grid of measure. Sketch method Diagram Image 2. Giambattista Nolli, Pianta di Roma (1748), annotation studies Nolli as an eight-day walk through Giuseppe Vasi’s guidebook (1763) Image 3. Close up of itinerary guide produced during the three-month residency at the British School at Rome, mapping a route from church to church Image 4. Extracting Nolli Map: Visual record of 46 churches. Accessibility shown in black and white; numbering corresponds to Nolli’s map Image 5. Terra-Firma, The Churches of Rome: Walk One Itinerary Map. Pencil on paper (250×90cm) Image 6. Extracting Nolli Map: British School at Rome Installation, 2024. Itinerary walk (1-4), compendium of Roman churches, zooming into Nolli’s map. Displayed isotropically at the same scale, the plans form a comparative mode focused on condition rather than form. Image 7. British School at Rome, 2024. Artist studio installation, public presentation of collected works during the second month of the residency. Image 8. Extracting Nolli Map: The Churches of Rome in Eight Days. A complete–incomplete compendium of churches in the historic centre, marking an ongoing project. Image 9. A Survey of Florence, Plate I: Tracing the relationship between monument, piazza, and the emergence of linear perspective. Pencil on paper (70x90cm) Image 10. A Survey of Florence, Plate II: Measured facts; the plan defines footprint and alignment, the elevation height and proportion. Pencil on paper (70x90cm) Image 11. A Survey of Florence, Plate III: Positioning Brunelleschi’s process in formalising vision; aligning observer, subject, and panel within a fixed act of seeing. Pencil on paper (70x90cm) Image 12. A Survey of Florence, Plate IV: Ground depth as the new grid; vanishing point fixes horizon, compressing space into a measurable field. Pencil on paper (70x90cm) Image 13. Rome in Bologna: Church of San Petronio in Bologna, unfinished since 1390; construction halted in 1561 when it was to exceed the scale of Old St. Peter’s in Rome. Image 14. Bologna in Rome: Petronio versus Pietro. The drawing overlays the rare original plan with another unrealised masterpiece for San Petronio: Palladio’s 1572 façade proposal. Planometric view from below. Pencil on paper (42×59cm) Image 15. The Berlin Drawing Revisited: Responds to a speculative 17th-century drawing of the Spanish Steps held at the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin. Invited contribution to the Keats-Shelley House Museum, Rome 2025