Architectural Invention In Renaissance Rome

Author : Yvonne Elet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108216110
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome written by Yvonne Elet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. The creation of this important, unfinished complex provides a remarkable case study for the nature of architectural invention. Drawing on little known poetry describing the villa while it was on the drawing board, as well as ground plans, letters, and antiquities once installed there, Yvonne Elet reveals the design process to have been a dynamic, collaborative effort involving humanists as well as architects. She explores design as a self-reflexive process, and the dialectic of text and architectural form, illuminating the relation of word and image in Renaissance architectural practice. Her revisionist account of architectural design as a process engaging different systems of knowledge, visual and verbal, has important implications for the relation of architecture and language, meaning in architecture, and the translation of idea into form.

Author : Yvonne Elet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107571518
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome written by Yvonne Elet and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. The creation of this important, unfinished complex provides a remarkable case study for the nature of architectural invention. Drawing on little known poetry describing the villa while it was on the drawing board, as well as ground plans, letters, and antiquities once installed there, Yvonne Elet reveals the design process to have been a dynamic, collaborative effort involving humanists as well as architects. She explores design as a self-reflexive process, and the dialectic of text and architectural form, illuminating the relation of word and image in Renaissance architectural practice. Her revisionist account of architectural design as a process engaging different systems of knowledge, visual and verbal, has important implications for the relation of architecture and language, meaning in architecture, and the translation of idea into form.

Author : Alina A. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521178235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance written by Alina A. Payne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism. Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central issue around which much of this debate focused.

Author : Peter Fane-Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316419096
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture written by Peter Fane-Saunders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders - material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions of these buildings, as well as details of their unusual construction materials and ornament. This book describes, for the first time, how the passages were interpreted from around 1430 to 1580, that is, from Alberti to Palladio. Chapters are arranged chronologically within three interrelated sections - antiquarianism; architectural writings; drawings and built monuments - thereby making it possible for the reader to follow the changing attitudes to Pliny over the period. The resulting study establishes the Naturalis historia as the single most important literary source after Vitruvius's De architectura.

Author : Vaughan Hart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300075304
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Palaces written by Vaughan Hart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays examining early editions of Vitruvius' writings and all the major Renaissance architectural treatises by authors such as Alberti, Di Giorgio, Colonna, Serlio, and Palladio. The authors look at the significance of the treaty in the Renaissance, and trace its decline in the late 17th century.

Author : John Barrington Bayley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486267210
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome written by John Barrington Bayley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from five large volumes published between 1825 and 1882, this student's edition showcases the architectural splendor of Renaissance Rome for a new generation. Paul Letarouilly's original work constitutes the standard reference, presenting the most complete collection of plans, elevations, and details of great buildings and monuments designed by Michelangelo, Peruzzi, Vignola, Bernini, and many others.

Author : Paul Letarouilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803800762
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome written by Paul Letarouilly and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Karmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108808476
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance written by David Karmon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with the built environment. His book draws upon the close study of literary and visual sources to prove that early modern audiences paid sustained attention to the multisensory experience of the buildings and cities in which they lived. Through reconstructing the Renaissance understanding of the senses, we can better gauge how constant interaction with the built environment shaped daily practices and contributed to new forms of understanding. Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance offers a stimulating new approach to the study of Renaissance architecture and urbanism as a kind of 'experiential trigger' that shaped ways of both thinking and being in the world.

Author : Frank D. Prager
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157288
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brunelleschi written by Frank D. Prager and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive book describes how Filippo Brunelleschi built the dome of Florence's famed cathedral: masonry techniques, construction concepts, and more. 28 halftones. 18 line illustrations.

Author : Thomas Gordon Smith
Publisher : G.M. Smith
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Architecture written by Thomas Gordon Smith and published by G.M. Smith. This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: