The aim of this article is to propose an approach to the “space of the mind” through the analysis of successive spaces built with scenographical techniques that can be found in some domestic rooms. Two rooms, conceived and built in Italy, separated from each other by half a millennium, were taken as a case study. These are the studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro and the Stanza Metafísica of Piero Fornasetti. The starting point is the studiolo, a type of private room that has its origins in the Renaissance, and while it has been blurred since then, its specific qualities has been applied to other spaces throughout history. The studiolo was the most intimate room in the house, dedicated to intellectual activity, and it was a representation of the individual. It was a space with the ability to translate the owner into another world—its authentic inner world—through the decoration and objects it contained. Usually, the studioli are lined with wood because of their ability to achieve a sheltered interior. At the beginning of the 15th century, carpenters and artisans developed a way of working this paneling that clad rooms using the intarsia technique. This novel technique, together with the rise and development of the laws of perspective, conquered wooden flat surfaces by turning them into windows to other imaginary worlds that looked out onto the universe of the mind, allowing the penetration of a new fictitious space. One of the most paradigmatic cases of the time, which combines all these qualities, is the pair of studioli commissioned by Federico da Montefeltro in the ducal palaces in Urbino (1473–1476) and Gubbio (1479–1482), made up of embedded wood panels that display an extraordinary collection of objects, and interior and exterior visions that completely transform the original space. Almost five hundred years after the completion of Gubbio’s studiolo, between 1955 and 1958, Piero Fornasetti created the Stanza Metafísica. This is a room capable of adapting to any space, able to grow and shrink, a scenography dedicated to meditation. The 32 wooden panels that form it, treated using a contemporary technique, take us to the same place of the mind, which is completely different from the Gubbio one. Full cabinets are now simply architecture without function, devoid of objects and references: black lines and pure geometry on a white background. The Fornasetti stanza gathers many of the qualities of the Renaissance studiolo and appropriates them, adapting it to the new techniques and conception of space. In conclusion, both examples reveal the existence of both a physical room and another metaphysical room—i.e., a fictitious space contained within a real space, built through technique and perspective. These are scenographies capable of being moved and adapted to disguise any room, transforming it into a space that is inhabited by the mind for an intimate, individual intellectual activity.

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心灵的房间：从工作室到形而上学的房间

本文的目的是通过分析在一些家庭房间中可以找到的用场景技术建造的连续空间，提出一种“心灵空间”的方法。两个房间，在意大利构思和建造，相隔半个千年，被作为案例研究。这些是 Federico da Montefeltro 的工作室和 Piero Fornasetti 的 Stanza Metafísica。起点是工作室，这是一种起源于文艺复兴时期的私人房间，虽然从那时起它就变得模糊不清，但它的特殊品质已被应用于历史上的其他空间。工作室是房子里最私密的房间，专门用于智力活动，它是个人的代表。这是一个能够通过它所包含的装饰和物品将主人转化为另一个世界——它真实的内心世界的空间。通常，studioli 内衬有木头，因为它们能够实现隐蔽的内部空间。在 15 世纪初，木匠和工匠开发了一种使用嵌花技术来装饰房间的镶板的加工方法。这种新颖的技术，连同透视法则的兴起和发展，征服了木制平面，将它们变成了通往其他想象世界的窗户，可以看到心灵的宇宙，从而可以穿透一个新的虚构空间。当时最典型的案例之一，结合了所有这些品质，是 Federico da Montefeltro 在乌尔比诺 (1473-1476) 和古比奥 (1479-1482) 的公爵宫殿中委托制作的一对工作室，由嵌入的木板组成，展示了非凡的收藏品，以及内部和外部的视觉完全改造原来的空间。在古比奥的工作室完成近 500 年后，即 1955 年至 1958 年间，Piero Fornasetti 创作了 Stanza Metafísica。这是一个能够适应任何空间，能够增长和缩小的房间，一个专门用于冥想的场景。构成它的 32 块木板，采用现代技术处理，将我们带到同一个心灵的地方，这与古比奥完全不同。完整的橱柜现在只是没有功能的架构，没有对象和参考：黑色线条和白色背景上的纯几何。Fornasetti 节收集了文艺复兴时期工作室的许多品质并加以利用，使其适应新的技术和空间概念。总之，这两个例子都揭示了一个物理房间和另一个形而上学房间的存在——即一个包含在真实空间中的虚构空间，通过技术和视角构建。这些场景图能够被移动和调整以伪装任何房间，将其转变为一个由心灵居住的空间，以进行亲密的、个人的智力活动。这两个例子都揭示了一个物理房间和另一个形而上学房间的存在——即一个包含在真实空间中的虚构空间，通过技术和视角构建。这些场景图能够被移动和调整以伪装任何房间，将其转变为一个由心灵居住的空间，以进行亲密的、个人的智力活动。这两个例子都揭示了一个物理房间和另一个形而上学房间的存在——即一个包含在真实空间中的虚构空间，通过技术和视角构建。这些场景图能够被移动和调整以伪装任何房间，将其转变为一个由心灵居住的空间，以进行亲密的、个人的智力活动。