the glam curve
The Baroque was a period when the Catholic Church used glamour to persuade the laity. The most significant shape during this period was the oval. The space within the oval was symbolic of heaven.
1. Serilio's four ovals. As the glamorous curve expresses transformation and duality, it adopts the heavenly curve and couples it with the sensuous curve. It takes heavenly perfection and makes it accessible through an organic language.
2. Inflection - where a concave curve meets a convex curve.
References:
1. Proia, Lina and Marta Menghini: "Conic Sections in the Sky and on the Earth", Educational Studies in Mathematics 15.2(1984):199
2. Cache, Bernard. Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, 128-129.
