March 21, 2014 Firenze Pizzeria
Tonight we decided to see ”Tim’s Vermeer” at 7:40 p.m. and
eat pizza at the new pizza restaurant in the neighborhood first.
At 5:30 we went down the street to Firenze Pizzeria and had one of their
incredibly thin crust pizzas with mushrooms and pepperoni. The mushrooms were delicious but the
pepperoni, not so much. We ate a box of
salad, which is the way they serve it ($.29). The container of vinaigrette was
overly vinegary. Next time I will order
extra olive oil. The decor is minimal at
best but the wood fire oven is beautiful.
For $9.95 per pizza, we will go back and try other pizzas; especially
ones with mushrooms, as Suzette suggested.
No wine but Suzette enjoyed the lavender lemonade.
The movie was interesting.
It is impossible to explain but let me say simply that Tim may have discovered
the secret of Vermeer’s and man y other Renaissance painter’s realistic
rendering of objects with perspective that created such a break with Medieval
paintings’ flattened field of vision and images. It is
to use a system of mirrors that allows one to project an image you wish to
paint onto a canvas that you then paint.
When you have achieved the correct color and tonality of paint the
projected image merges with the painted image and you have a perfect copy with
the same tonality and hue and shape. Although, that does not seem to work for
faces, at least for Tim. You have to be
a real painter like David Hockney, who is also featured in the film, because he
has also explored this secret of Renaissance paintings, to render facial expressions.
Bon Appétit
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