Title & Author:

Paper palaces : the rise of the Renaissance architectural treatise / edited by Vaughan Hart, with Peter Hicks.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©1998.

Description:

xii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-401) and index.
Introduction : 'Paper palaces' from Alberti to Scamozzi / Vaughan Hart -- Theory as rhetoric : Leon Battista Alberti in theory and in practice / Joseph Rykwert -- On Filarete's Libro architettonico / Luisa Giordano -- The Trattati on architecture by Francesco di Giorgio / Francesco Paolo Fiore -- The Hypnerotomachoia poliphili by Francesco Colonna : the erotic nature of architectural meaning / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- Vitruvius in print and in vernacular translation : Fra Giocondo, Bramante, Raphael and Cesare Ceseriano / Ingrid D. Rowland -- 'Hungry and desperate for knowledge' : Diego de Sagredo's Spanish point of view / Nigel Llewellyn -- On Sebastiano Serlio : decorum and the art of architectural invention / Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks -- The making of the typographical architect / Mario Carpo -- Serlio and the representation of architecture / Vaughan Hart -- On Guilllaume Philandrier : forms and norm / Frédérique Lemerle -- On Vignola's Rule of the five orders of architecture / Richard J. Tuttle -- On Philbert De l'Orme : a treatise transcending the rules / Jean Guillaume -- Palladio's 'corpus' : I quattro libri dell'architettura / Robert Tavernor -- The Mirror Theatre of Vincenzo Scamozzi / Marco Frascari -- Treatises and the architecture of Venice in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Manuela Morresi -- Vitruvius, Alberti and Serlio : architectural treatises in the low countries, 1530-1620 / Krista de Jonge -- From virgin to courtesan in early English Vitruvian books / Vaughan Hart -- On Claude Perrault : modernising Vitruvius / Indra Kagis McEwen -- From Blondel to Blondel : on the decline of the Vitruvian treatise / James McQuillan.

Summary:

De Architectura, the ten books by the Roman architect Vitruvius, survives as the only complete architectural treatise from antiquity. Its influence from the early Renaissance on was enormous, and many architects and theorists in Renaissance Italy, following Vitruvius's example, attempted to codify architectural practice and theory by writing their own treatises.
In this important collection of essays, leading specialists examine the early editions of Vitruvius's writings and all the major Renaissance architectural treatises. The collection shows how architectural treatises by such authors as Alberti, Di Giorgio, Colonna, Serlio, Palladio, and others have affected the development of the art of building.
The contributors offer new insights into the ideas of the treatises and discuss their significance in Renaissance Italy and their long-lasting influence throughout Europe.

Resources:
Table of contents
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Klappentext
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ISBN:

0300075308 (cloth)
9780300075304 (cloth)

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Textbooks.
Architecture, Renaissance Textbooks.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture Manuels.
Architecture de la Renaissance Manuels.
Architecture.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Architekturtheorie
Renaissance
Architektur
Ästhetik
Architectuurtheorieën.
Receptie.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Early works.
Textbooks.

Added entries:

Hart, Vaughan, 1960-
Hicks, Peter, 1964-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200800
Call No.: NA2515 .P36 1998
Status: Available