Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781138547544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Katherine Wheeler

Opis

In the mid-1880s, an influential British architectural journal published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corruption of classical architecture. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the ’Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.’ Relevant for architectural historians, literary scholars and those in Victorian studies, this book examines the conflicting late nineteenth-century characterizations of Renaissance architecture and reassesses them within the formation of a modern, British architectural profession.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The sins of the Renaissance: John Ruskin and the rise of the professional architect; Embracing decadence: Walter Pater’s and John Addington Symonds’s Renaissance; ‘It is time to be rational’: William J. Anderson’s The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy; The Renaissance as an English style: J. Alfred Gotch, Reginald Blomfield, and the English Renaissance; Experiencing the Renaissance: Geoffrey Scott’s The Architecture of Humanism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Katherine Wheeler is Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Miami, USA.