Readings in Italian Mannerism II: Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781433160721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 236 str.

Liana De Girolami Cheney

Opis

This book addresses the impact of Mannerist architecture and art theory in sixteenth century European architecture and culture.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Preface - Liana De Girolami Cheney: Introduction - Vitruvius: The Education of the Architect - Vitruvius: The Fundamental Principles of Architecture - Leon Battista Alberti: The Architecture ..., Book 9, Chapters 9-11 - Sebastiano Serlio: The Entire Works on Architecture and Perspective - Giorgio Vasari: To the Artists in Design - Elisabeth B. MacDougall: Michelangelo and the Porta Pia - Sir Nikolaus Pevsner: The Architecture of Mannerism - Deborah H. Cibelli: Giulio Romano: Mannerist Architect and Draftsman - Charles Burroughs: Message, Montage, Mannerism: Varieties of Extraordinary in Serlio's Extraordinary Book - Liana De Girolami Cheney: Il Corridoio Vasariano: A Resplendent Passage to Medici and Vasari's Grandeur - Liana De Girolami Cheney: Giorgio Vasari and Mannerist Architecture: A Marriage of Beauty and Function in Urban Spaces - Andrzej Piotrowski: Architectural Mannerism and the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation - Contributors - Index.

O autorze

Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD is presently a Visiting Scholar in Art History at the Università di Aldo Moro in Bari, Italy, and Investigadora de Historia de Arte, SIELAE, Universidad de Coruña, Spain. She received her BS/BA in psychology and philosophy from the University of Miami, Florida, her MA in history of art and aesthetics from the University of Miami, Florida and her PhD in Italian Renaissance and Baroque from Boston University, Massachusetts. Dr. Cheney is Renaissance and Mannerist scholar, author, and coauthor of numerous articles and books, including: The Symbolism of 'Vanitas' in the Arts, Literature, and Music; Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature and the Visual Arts; Giorgio Vasari's Teachers: Sacred and Profane Love; Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The Magic Paintings; Self-Portraits by Women Painters; Giorgio Vasari's Artistic and Emblematic Manifestations; Edward Burne-Jones's Mythical Paintings; and Agnolo Bronzino: The Florentine Muse.