Main entry:

MacDonald, William L. (William Lloyd), 1921-2010.

Title & Author:

Hadrian's villa and its legacy / William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.

Description:

x, 392 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
One map on folded leaf inserted.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and index.
I. Introduction -- II. The Site -- III. Familiar Architecture -- IV. Unfamiliar Architecture -- V. The High Ground -- VI. Art -- VII. The Villa in Use -- VIII. Survival and Rediscovery -- IX. The Draftsman's Vision -- X. The Landscape of Allusion -- XI. Art Dispersed -- XII. After 1800 -- Piranesi's Pianta Commentary.

Summary:

The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art. The inspiration for major developments in villa and landscape design from the Renaissance onward, it also influenced such eminent twentieth-century architects as Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. In this beautiful book, two distinguished architectural historians describe and interpret the Villa as it existed in Roman times and track its extraordinary effect on architects and artists up to the present day. William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto begin by evaluating the numerous buildings composing the complex, and then describe the art, decorated surfaces, gardens, waterworks, and life at the Villa. The authors then turn to the ways the Villa influenced writers, artists, architects, and landscape designers from the fifteenth century to the present. They discuss, for example, Piranesi's archaeological, architectural, and graphic Villa studies in the eighteenth century; connections between Hadrian's Villa and the English landscape garden; the array of European verbal and artistic depictions of the Villa; and architectural studies of the Villa by twentieth-century Americans.

ISBN:

0300053819 (hardcover)
9780300053814 (hardcover)
0300068514 (paperback)
9780300068511 (paperback)
0300006851

Subject:

Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 Homes and haunts Italy Tivoli.
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138.
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 Art patronage.
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 Palaces.
Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy)
Villa Hadriana (Tivoli, Italie)
Architecture, Domestic Italy Tivoli Influence.
Architecture Italy Tivoli Influence.
Architecture Italie Tivoli Influence.
Architecture, Domestic Influence.
Architecture Influence.
Buildings.
Homes.
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
Receptie.
Emperors Rome.
Art, Roman Italy Tivoli.
Tivoli (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Italy Tivoli.
Tivoli (Italy) Antiquities.
Palaces Architecture History
Italy

Added entries:

Pinto, John A.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 174769
Call No.: ID NA327.T5 M23; ID:95-B963
Status: Available

Location: Library main 174768
Call No.: ID NA327.T5 M23; ID:95-B963
Status: Available