Vitruvius : writing the body of architecture / Indra Kagis McEwen.

Main entry:

McEwen, Indra Kagis.

Title & Author:

Vitruvius : writing the body of architecture / Indra Kagis McEwen.

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Description:

x, 493 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-476) and index.
The angelic body -- The Herculean body -- The body beautiful -- The body of the king.

Summary:

"Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual accuracy of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work's meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C. McEwen argues that the imperial project of world dominion shaped Vitruvius's purpose in writing what he called "the whole body of architecture." Devoting each chapter to a different Vitruvian "body," McEwen addresses such topics as the relation of the book and its author to Augustus, the role of beauty in forging the new world order, and the nature and unprecedented extent of Augustan building programs."--Jacket.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

0262134152 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262134156 (hc. ; alk. paper)
026263306X
9780262633062

Subject:

Vitruvius Pollio.
Vitruvius Pollio. De architectura.
Vitruve. De architectura.
Vitruvius Pollio, 1e eeuw v.Chr.
Vitruvius.
De architectura.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture.
Bouwkunst.
Didactisch proza.
Latijn.
Bouwkunst Didactisch proza Latijn Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227876
Call No.: NA44.V848.9 M3 2003
Status: Available

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