Main entry:

Tavernor, Robert.

Title & Author:

On Alberti and the Art of Building / Robert Tavernor.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.

Description:

xii, 278 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
[Table of Contents] -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note -- ON ALBERTI -- 1. The Early Years -- 2. Rome Revealed and Re-presented -- 3. Architect and Visionary -- 4. Self-portraiture and Alberti's Eye for the Future -- ON THE ART OF BUILDING -- 5. Beauty in Art and Building -- In Search of Beauty -- Bodily Representations in Art and Architecture -- Body Measures for Buildings -- Architecture and the Body Analogy -- Beauty through concinnitas -- Redefining concinnitas: through numerus, finitio and collocatio -- Composition -- Theory into Practice -- 6. Sigismondo Malatesta and the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini -- The Malatesta Dynasty and the Church of San Francesco in Rimini -- From Church to Temple: Transforming San Francesco into the Tempio Malatestiano -- Correspondence Describing Aspects of Alberti's Design for the Tempio Malatestiano -- Reconstructing the Rotunda at the East End of the Tempio Malatestiano -- Theory into Practice: the Proportions of the Tempio Malatestiano and 'tutta quella musica' -- 7. Giovanni Rucellai and his Architectural Ensemble in Florence -- Introduction -- The Façade of Palazzo Rucellai -- Architecture in Perspective -- Precedents for the Palazzo Rucellai Façade -- Palazzi Piccolomini and Rucellai Compared -- Palazzo Rucellai Extended -- The Façade of Santa Maria Novella -- The Rucellai Sepulchre in San Pancrazio -- The Rucellai Loggia -- 8. Ludovico Gonzaga and Alberti in Mantua and Florence -- Introduction -- A Building History of San Sebastiano in Mantua -- The Almost Perfect Proportions of San Sebastiano -- The Tribune of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence -- A Building History of Sant'Andrea in Mantua -- Alberti's Interpretation of the Etruscan Temple for Sant'Andrea -- Designing Sant'Andrea as an Etruscan Temple -- The Façade of Sant'Andrea as 'Triumph' -- 9. Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino and Alberti's Design for a Bath Building -- The Benevolent Prince -- Federico and Alberti -- Building and Bathing -- A Design for a Bath Building attributed to Alberti -- The Art of Building in Practice -- Appendix -- Notes -- Alberti's Writings -- Bibliography -- Index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) - writer, painter and sculptor, mathematician and, most famously, architectural theorist and architect - came closer than anyone to the Renaissance ideal of the 'complete man'. Recognised by his contemporaries as an extraordinary person, he helped to shape, through his writings and his practical example in the arts, the way in which the natural and artificial world was perceived and represented during the Renaissance. His De re aedificatoria, the primary source for his ideas about architecture, was the first Renaissance architectural treatise, and his achievements as an architect were great by the standards of any age. The role he established for the architect in society and the design procedures he devised are no less relevant to architects today than they were over five hundred years ago. In this book - the first digest of Alberti's architecture to be published for twenty-five years - Robert Tavernor examines a variety of themes: the relationship between the architect and his patrons; his writings on the visual arts and his practical example; his significance for the extension of architectural theory into practice; and his success in raising the status of architecture to an art - one that sought to be in harmony with the natural world. The various building projects with which Alberti is known to have been involved are discussed in detail and placed in approximate chronological order, as well as being described in relation to the role of the patrons and builders and given an historical context. New reconstructions of Alberti's buildings and new interpretations of his design intentions make this study as original as it will be indispensable for all students of Renaissance architecture." -- Dust Jacket.

ISBN:

0300076150 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300076158 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Criticism and interpretation.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Critique et interprétation.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472). De re aedificatoria.
Alberti, Leon Battista, (1404-1472) Criticism and interpretation.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De re aedificatoria
Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Architects and patrons Italy.
Architecture de la Renaissance Italie.
Architectes et mécènes Italie.
Architects and patrons
Architecture, Renaissance
Gebouwen.
Architecture Italie Renaissance.
Architectes et mécènes Italie Renaissance.
Italy

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202149
Call No.: NA44.A334.A63 1998
Status: Available