![]() ![]() The exceptional circumstances gave the artists time and space to think about the social, political, cultural, psychological and even ecological state of affairs. The duo Prinz Gholam, winners of the Rome Prize, will also be performing at the Kleiner Schlosshof (Small Palace Courtyard) at the Residenzschloss on June 22. ![]() The artworks in the exhibition Eppur si muove-And yet it moves! Villa Massimo visits the Japanisches Palais mostly came about during the recent period of seclusion and isolation, and tackle the vulnerability of individuals, societies and the natural world in which we live. Even if Galileo never uttered "Eppur si muove," the phrase accurately reflects the empiricist spirit he helped to foster in early modern Europe.From June 24 to September 25, 2022, the 18 winners of the Villa Massimo’s Rome Prize in 2020//22 will be presenting the works they created in Rome at the Japanisches Palais. The painting is obviously not historically correct, because it depicts Galileo in a dungeon, but nonetheless shows that some variant of the " Eppur si muove" legend was in circulation immediately after his death when many who had known him were still alive to attest to it, and that it had been circulating for over a century before it was published.Īlthough the Galileo affair resulted in a temporary reverse for the cause of heliocentrism, the work of Galileo, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton ultimately vindicated the theory. This painting was produced within a year or two after Galileo died as it is dated 1643 or 1645 (the last number is partially obscured). In 1911, the line was found on a Spanish painting owned by a Belgian family. The book was written 124 years after the supposed utterance and became widely published in Querelles Littéraires (1761). The moment he was set at liberty, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said, Eppur si muove, that is, still it moves, meaning the earth. The event was first reported in English print in 1757 by Giuseppe Baretti in his book the The Italian Library: The earliest biography of Galileo, written by his disciple Vincenzo Viviani in 1655–1656, does not mention this phrase. There is no contemporary evidence that Galileo uttered this expression at his trial it would certainly have been highly imprudent for him to have done so. As such, the phrase is used today as a sort of pithy retort implying that "it doesn't matter what you believe these are the facts". In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite this recantation, the Church's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction or doctrine of men, the Earth does, in fact, move around the sun, and not vice versa. Since Galileo recanted, he was only put under house arrest until his death, nine years after the trial. Galileo's adversaries brought the charge of heresy, then punishable by death, before the Inquisition. " And yet it moves" ( Eppur si muove) is a phrase said to have been uttered before the Inquisition by the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant that the earth moves around the sun.Īt the time of Galileo's trial, the dominant view among theologians and philosophers was that the Earth is stationary, indeed the center of the universe. ![]()
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