Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome: Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama

ISBN-13: 9781107130524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 360 str.

Yvonne Elet

Opis

A revisionist view of Renaissance architectural design as a dialectical process engaging word and image in the creation of Raphael's masterwork.

Recenzje

'This substantial, original book makes significant contributions to our understanding of the architectural design process in early modern Rome … [Elet] moves effortlessly across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deftly interweaving different modes of analysis and a profound familiarity with myriad sources, primary and secondary … The book's production value matches the quality of its concept and writing, with many well-chosen illustrations that evoke both the villa and the ideas in circulation around it quite nicely.' Jessica Maier, Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements; Note on translations and abbreviations; Introduction. The nature of invention, in word and image; 1. Reviving the corpse; 2. Writing architecture; 3. Sperulo's vision; 4. Encomia of the unbuilt; 5. Metastructures of word and image; 6. Dynamic design; Conclusion. Building with mortar and verse; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.