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Versailles
Watercolour
sketch
©2013 Charlene
Brown
In the Age of Enlightenment
– corresponding approximately to the late 17th to
early19th centuries – the great thinkers of the time began to challenge
ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through what became know as The Scientific Method.
René Descartes (1596-1650)
a French philosopher, after whom the Cartesian Coordinate System was named, united
algebraic principles and visual space in developing analytic geometry.
The definitive jardin à la française, Versailles, begun in 1710, was said to be have been laid
out as homage to Euclid’s postulates and the
strict mathematics of Newton’s
principles.
This period also featured
extraordinary realism in painting... Perhaps I should have found a protractor
and done this sketch 'properly.'
