Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy

ISBN-13: 9781032238494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Nicholas Temple

Opis

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern in Italy.

Spis treści

List of Figures  About the Cover Figure Credits  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Poetic Language in the Early Renaissance (volgare versus Latin)  2. Resuscitative Language in the Late Renaissance (Antiquarianism)  3. Universal Language in the Baroque (Ethnography)  4. Pastoral Language in the Early Eighteenth-Century (Arcadianism)  Conclusion  Select bibliography  Index

O autorze

Nicholas Temple is an architect, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability (CUDAS) at the University of Huddersfield. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, he previously served as head of the School of Architecture at the University of Lincoln and was an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Temple was a Rome Scholar in Architecture at the British School at Rome, a Paul Mellon Rome Fellow and Bogliasco Fellow and has collaborated on research projects on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in Europe and China. His most recent research is a British Academy funded project with Professor Cecilia Panti on Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Third Commentary. He was shortlisted for the International CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award in 2014 for his book Renovatio Urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II (Routledge, 2011), and is chief editor of the Routledge Research in Architectural History series and co-editor of the Journal of Architecture.