Main entry:

Tafuri, Manfredo.

Title & Author:

Interpreting the Renaissance : princes, cities, architects / Manfredo Tafuri ; translated Daniel Sherer ; foreword by K. Micchael Hays.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, ©2006.

Description:

xxxi, 408 pages, [128] pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Harvard University Graduate School of Design series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-395) and index.
A search for paradigms: project, truth, artifice -- Cives esse non licere: Nicholas V and Leon Battista Alberti -- Princes, cities, architects -- Jugum meum suave est: architecture and myth in the era of Leo X -- Roma coda mundi: the sack of Rome: rupture and continuity -- The Granada of Charles V: palace and mausoleum -- Venetian epilogue: Jacopo Sansovino from inventio to consuetudo.
Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

"Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994) is acknowledged as one of Italy's most influential architectural historians. In his final work, Interpreting the Renaissance, published here in English for the first time, Tafuri analyzes Renaissance architecture from a variety of perspectives, exploring questions that occupied him for over thirty years: What theoretical terms were used to describe the humanist analogy between architecture and language? Is it possible to identify the political motivations behind the period's new urban strategies? And how does humanism embody both an attachment to tradition and an urge to experiment?" "Tafuri studies the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling readings of its various social, intellectual, and cultural contexts while providing a broad understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era. He synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centers of architectural innovation in Italy (Florence, Rome, and Venice), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century (Pope Nicholas V) to the early sixteenth century (Pope Leo X), and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo de'Medici, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, and Giulio Romano. Interpreting the Renaissance is an essential book for anyone interested in the architecture and culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780300111583 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
0300111584 (hard cover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Architecture Italy.
Cities and towns, Renaissance Italy.
Renaissance Italy.
Architecture de la Renaissance Italie.
Architecture Italie.
Villes de la Renaissance Italie.
Renaissance Italie.
Architecture.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Cities and towns, Renaissance.
Renaissance.
Bouwkunst.
Theorie en praktijk.
Culturele aspecten.
Italy.
Italië.

Added entries:

Harvard University Graduate School of Design series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245266
Call No.: BIB 174899
Status: Available