Main entry:

Payne, Alina Alexandra.

Title & Author:

The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance : architectural invention, ornament, and literary culture / Alina A. Payne.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Description:

xv, 343 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index.
Part I. Texts, ruins, and academies -- Ch. 1. Of license and archaeology -- Ch. 2. Vitruvius -- Ch. 3. Literary grids and artistic intersections -- Ch. 4. Alberti -- Ch. 5. Francesco di Giorgio Martini -- Part II. La questione del ornamento : Ch. 6. Serlio and the theoretization of ornament -- Ch. 7. Spini and architectural Imitatio -- Ch. 8. Palladio and the aesthetics of necessita -- Ch. 9. Scamozzi and Gesamttheorie.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism. Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central issue around which much of this debate focused. Ornament, she argues, facilitated a dialogue across disciplines and invited exchanges with literary and rhetorical practices. Payne's study also highlights the place of the architectural treatise in the text-based culture of the period and of architectural discourse in Renaissance thought."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521622662 (hb)
9780521622660 (hb)

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472). De re aedificatoria.
Spini, Gerardo. Imitatio.
Vitruve (00.-00. av. J.-C.). De architectura.
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, (1439-1502) Critique et interprétation.
Palladio, Domizio, (1508-1580) critique et interprétation.
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, (1552-1616) Critique et interprétation.
Serlio, Sebastiano, (1475-1554?) Critique et interprétation.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Textbooks.
Architecture, Renaissance Italy Textbooks.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Italy.
Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800 Histoire.
Architecture Manuels Histoire.
Architecture de la Renaissance Italie.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Italie.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Architecture
Architecture, Renaissance
Architekturtheorie
Bauornament
Renaissance
Architectuurtheorieën.
Traktaten (verhandelingen)
Ornamentiek.
Italy
Italien

Form/genre:

Textbooks.
Early works

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205792
Call No.: NA2515 .P3 1999
Status: Available