Becoming an architect in Renaissance Italy : art, science and the career of Baldassarre Peruzzi / Ann C. Huppert.

Main entry:

Huppert, Ann C.

Title & Author:

Becoming an architect in Renaissance Italy : art, science and the career of Baldassarre Peruzzi / Ann C. Huppert.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]

Description:

ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index.
Introduction : The elusive Peruzzi -- Becoming "Baldassarre architetto de Siena" -- The lessons of ancient Rome -- From painting to architecture: Peruzzi's evolving methods of design -- Peruzzi's legacy.

Summary:

"A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly critical assessment by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), have long cast Peruzzi's career in shadow. With Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy, Ann C. Huppert taps into a known, but neglected resource--Peruzzi's autograph drawings--and reveals the full scope and artistic mastery of Peruzzi's work and its enduring influence. Extraordinary not only in their beauty and design inventiveness, but also in the varied representational techniques and practical mathematics noted within them, Peruzzi's drawings record an evolving artistic process. Reassessing his architectural masterworks, Huppert also explores lesser-known work: his studies of Roman antiquity, realized paintings and unrealized buildings, as well as engineering projects. Huppert shows that Peruzzi anticipated modern representational methods and scientific approaches in architecture, and pinpoints the moment when architecture began to emerge as a profession distinct from the other arts"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780300203950 (hardback)
0300203950 (hardback)

Subject:

Peruzzi, Baldassarre, 1481-1536 Criticism and interpretation.
Peruzzi, Baldassarre, 1481-1536.
Peruzzi, Baldassarre 1481-1536
Architectural practice Italy History To 1500.
Architectural practice Italy History 16th century.
Architectural design Italy History To 1500.
Architectural design Italy History 16th century.
Design architectural Italie Histoire 16e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE History Renaissance.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Artists, Architects, Photographers.
HISTORY Europe Italy.
Architectural design.
Architectural practice.
Arkitektur historia.
Arkitekter.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289740
Call No.: BIB 232342
Status: Available

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