Title & Author:

The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo : the representation of architecture / edited by Henry Millon and Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1994.

Description:

731 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Mar. 31-Nov. 6, 1994.
Published also in Italian under title: Rinascimento da Brunelleschi a Michelangelo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 681-715) and indexes.
Models in Renaissance architecture / Henry A. Millon -- The relation of sculpture and architecture in the Renaissance / Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt -- Reflections on the early architectural drawings / Christoph Luitpold Frommel -- Religious architecture in Renaissance Italy from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo / Arnaldo Bruschi -- Living all'antica : palaces and villas from Brunelleschi to Bramante / Christoph Luitpold Frommel -- The Italian city, 1400-1600 / Nicholas Adams and Laurie Nussdorfer -- The panels in Urbino, Baltimore and Berlin reconsidered / Richard Krautheimer -- The Renaissance of architecture / Hubertus Günther -- Ordo, fondo et mensura : the criteria of architecture / Oswald Mathias Ungers -- The regions of Italian Renaissance architecture / James Ackerman -- The urban structure of Naples : utopia and reality / Cesare de Seta -- The tale of two cities : Siena and Venice / Carlo Bertelli -- St. Peter's : the early history / Christoph Luitpold Frommel.
Dust jacket (c. 1).
Library c. 1: includes [12] p. supplement to the catalogue, "prepared to document additional loans made to the exhibition Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo: the cathedrals of Florence and Pavia and St. Peter's Rome, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 December 1994-19 March 1995."

Summary:

The paragons of the Italian Renaissance - Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo, Bramante among them - were almost without exception architects, not only in practice but also in the private spheres of their imaginations. Their architectural plans, fantasies and models, as much as the finished buildings, are the records of their extraordinary creative endeavours.
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, this book presents a panorama of civil and religious masterworks and the ideas behind them, by the geniuses who changed the face of European architecture, in the form of their fascinating models, plans and designs.
Essays by Carl Frommel, Richard Krautheimer, James Ackerman and other distinguished contributors consider architecture, architectural modelling and urban planning in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, reaching as far back as ancient Rome to uncover the roots of this great tradition. The works are analyzed historically from the dual viewpoint of Renaissance humanism and modern critical reappraisal. The essays cover French and German Renaissance architecture as well as Italian, and also consider architecture's relationship with other arts, such as stage design, painting and sculpture.
Numerous designs, projects and manuscripts, some never before published, are reproduced and described. Architecture provided a medium for some of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance, and their work set the pattern for all subsequent development in Europe. The idiom they created is here given expression in the most complete and detailed corpus ever published on the subject.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0847818284
9780847818280

Subject:

Architecture, Renaissance Italy Exhibitions.
Architectural models Italy Exhibitions.
Architectural drawing Italy 16th century Exhibitions.
Modèles architecturaux Italie Expositions.
Dessin d'architecture Italie 16e siècle Expositions.
Architectural drawing.
Architectural models.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Architecture, Renaissance Italy
Architectural models Italy.
Architecture Italy
Italy.
Architectural drawing Exhibitions 16th century Italy
Architectural models Exhibitions Italy
Architecture, Renaissance Exhibitions Italy
Geschichte 1420-1600

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Millon, Henry A.
Magnago Lampugnani, Vittorio, 1951-
Palazzo Grassi.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 104829
Call No.: ID NA1115.R325; ID:94-B2063
Status: Available

Location: Library main 104828
Call No.: ID NA1115.R325; ID:94-B2063
Status: Available