The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance
Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 13 February 1999
- ISBN 9780521622660
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages362 pages
- Size 254x178x21 mm
- Weight 840 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A 1999 analysis of the significance of the architectural treatise in Renaissance Italy.
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Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, 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. Originally published in 1999, 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. Ornament, she argues, facilitated a dialogue across disciplines and invited exchanges with literary and rhetorical practices. Payne's study also highlights the place of the architectural treatise in the text-based culture of the period and of architectural discourse in Renaissance thought.
Review of the hardback: 'This is an intelligent and original book that rewards close reading ... a brief summary cannot do justice to the richness of ideas in this stimulating book.' Burlington Magazine
Table of Contents:
1. Of archaeology and license; 2. Vitruvius; 3. Literary grids and artistic intersections; 4. Alberti; 5. Francesco di Giorgio Martini; 6. Serlio and the theoretization of ornament; 7. Spini and the Architectural Imitatio; 8. Palladio and Aesthetics Necessita; Scamozzi and Gesamttheorie.
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