Main entry:

Ackerman, James S.

Title & Author:

Distance points : essays in theory and Renaissance art and architecture / James S. Ackerman.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.

Description:

xxvii, 561 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published in honor of the author's seventieth birthday.
"James S. Ackerman: selected bibliography": pages xxii-xxvii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Xenion : a bread and butter letter / Kathleen Weil-Garris and Richard Krautheimer -- James S. Ackerman : selected bibliography -- Historical and critical theory: Style -- Transactions in architectural design -- Interpretation, response : toward a theory of art criticism -- Art and science -- Alberti's light -- Leonardo's eye -- On early Renaissance color theory and practice -- Early Renaissance "naturalism" and scientific illustration -- Renaissance architecture: "Ars sine scientia nihil est" : Gothic theory of architecture at the cathedral of Milan -- The Certosa of Pavia and the Renaissance in Milan -- Sources of the Renaissance villa -- The Belvedere as a classical villa -- Architectural practice in the Italian Renaissance -- The Capitoline Hill -- The Gesù in the light of contemporary church design -- The geopolitics of Venetan architecture in the time of Titian -- The Tuscan/rustic order : a study in the metaphorical language of architecture.
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Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262011220
9780262011228

Subject:

Art, Renaissance.
Art Philosophy.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Art de la Renaissance.
Art Philosophie.
Architecture de la Renaissance.
Beeldende kunsten.
Bouwkunst.
Renaissance.
Kunsttheorie.
Arte Renascentista.
Arquitetura Da Renascenca.
Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Visual arts

Form/genre:

Festschriften.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 70020
Call No.: ID:91-B886
Status: Available