There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books,” writes Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt. “Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head?” Centuries later, even for us who are not living in the midst of this “virtually inconceivable plentitude,” the vast corpus of creative works and knowledge that have been produced, re-produced, and circulated during Renaissance remains bewilderingly unimaginable. For Palazzo Strozzi, Refik Anadol Studio unveils an alternative way of looking at Renaissance painting archives ...