The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance : architectural invention, ornament, and literary culture / Alina A. Payne
1999, First Edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #394161
ISBN: 0521622662
Physical description; xv, 343 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index. Contents; Part I. Texts, ruins, and academies -- Ch. 1. Of license and archaeology -- Ch. 2. Vitruvius -- Ch. 3. Literary grids and artistic intersections -- Ch. 4. Alberti -- Ch. 5. Francesco di Giorgio Martini -- Part II. La questione del ornamento : Ch. 6. Serlio and the theoretization of ornament -- Ch. 7. Spini and architectural Imitatio -- Ch. 8. Palladio and the aesthetics of necessita -- Ch. 9. Scamozzi and Gesamttheorie. Subjects; Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472). De re aedificatoria. Spini, Gerardo. Imitatio. Vitruve (00.-00. av. J.-C.). De architectura. Martini, Francesco di Giorgio (1439-1502) Critique et interprétation. Palladio, Domizio (1508-1580) critique et interprétation. Scamozzi, Vincenzo (1552-1616) Critique et interprétation. Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554?) Critique et interprétation. Vitruvius. Architecture ; Early works to 1800. Architecture ; Textbooks. Architecture, Renaissance Italy ;Textbooks.
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