Main entry:

Hemsoll, David, author. aut

Title & Author:

Emulating antiquity : Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo / David Hemsoll.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019
©2019

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-344) and index.
Introduction. 1 : The early Renaissance in Florence. Vasari and the advent of the Renaissance -- 4t The Brunelleschi conundrum -- The abandonment of Gothic -- Brunelleschi's buildings -- Brunelleschi's early legacy -- Giuliano da Sangallo and a new concept of architecture -- Giuliano da Sangallo's architectural orientation -- 2 : The High Renaissance in Rome and Italy beyond. Vasari and the question of the High Renaissance -- Bramante's new start -- Changing perspectives and final vision -- Raphael and a new creative method -- An agenda for Italy -- The architectural orders -- The legacy of High Renaissance Rome -- 3 : Michelangelo and his contemporaries. Vasari and Michelangelo'a architecture -- Michelangelo's artistic grounding and introduction to architecture -- Florence and Michelangelo's artistic grounding and introduction to architecture -- Florence and Michelangelo's early concerns -- Untrammeled Florentine architecture -- Florentine responses -- Rome and Michelangelo's return to architecture -- Final works.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope-first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century-that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.

ISBN:

9780300225761 (hardcover)
0300225768 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Classicism in architecture Italy.
Architecture Italy.
Classicisme en architecture Italie.
Architecture Italie.
Architecture
Architecture, Renaissance
Europe.
Italy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306573
Call No.: BIB 252126
Status: Available