Play in Renaissance Italy
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From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in(...)
Play in Renaissance Italy
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From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was tamed.
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De la Renaissance à la dernière actualité, ce recueil est une contribution à l'histoire des relations entre architectes et commanditaires. Figures déterminantes de la commande architecturale, elles sont ici évoquées par neuf historiens, tant américain, français, italien, russe que suisse, abordant une vingtaine d'exemples issue d'horizons variés. De grands commanditaires(...)
Architectes et commanditaires : cas particuliers du XVIe au XXe siècle
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De la Renaissance à la dernière actualité, ce recueil est une contribution à l'histoire des relations entre architectes et commanditaires. Figures déterminantes de la commande architecturale, elles sont ici évoquées par neuf historiens, tant américain, français, italien, russe que suisse, abordant une vingtaine d'exemples issue d'horizons variés. De grands commanditaires réapparaissent, tels l'impératrice Catherine la Grande, le philanthrope Andrew Carnegie ou la famille Rothschild. D'autres, moins connus, sont à découvrir : le cardinal d'Amboise, l'ordre ecclésiastique de la Visitation, le cas singulier de puissants genevois, le Prince Napoléon, ou les usines Renault... Les architectes trouvent également la place qui leur est due avec des artistes aussi importants que François Mansart, Charles Cameron, Emile Trélat ou Mies van der Rohe.
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Comme l'illustrent "L'École d'Athènes" de Raphaël ou "L'Apothéose d'Homère" d'Ingres, la Renaissance marque l'avènement de l'artiste, qui revendique désormais un statut intellectuel et social comparable à celui des philosophes-poètes. Mais le travail manuel reste au cœur de son activité : matériaux et pratiques artistiques sont engagés dans l'œuvre au même titre que la(...)
L'architecture parmi les arts ; matérialité, transferts et travail artistique dans l'Italie de la Renaissance
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Comme l'illustrent "L'École d'Athènes" de Raphaël ou "L'Apothéose d'Homère" d'Ingres, la Renaissance marque l'avènement de l'artiste, qui revendique désormais un statut intellectuel et social comparable à celui des philosophes-poètes. Mais le travail manuel reste au cœur de son activité : matériaux et pratiques artistiques sont engagés dans l'œuvre au même titre que la vision poétique. L'idée artistique elle-même ne naîtrait-elle donc pas aussi du maniement physique des outils et des matériaux ? Et l'architecture, semblant confinée dans une pensée isolée de la fabrication matérielle, pourrait-elle s'intégrer dans cette perspective progressivement admise pour les autres arts ? Les questionnements qui traversent ce livre invitent à une réflexion sur le rôle de la matière, des instruments et des gestes dans le travail artistique, mais aussi sur le dialogue qu'entretiennent les arts entre eux, favorisé par l'utilisation de matériaux communs, à travers une étude de quelques œuvres majeures de l'architecture de la Renaissance italienne.
Architecture and the sense in the Italian Renaissance: the varieties of architectural experience
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This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with the built(...)
Architecture and the sense in the Italian Renaissance: the varieties of architectural experience
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This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with the built environment. His book draws upon the close study of literary and visual sources to prove that early modern audiences paid sustained attention to the multisensory experience of the buildings and cities in which they lived. Through reconstructing the Renaissance understanding of the senses, we can better gauge how constant interaction with the built environment shaped daily practices and contributed to new forms of understanding.'' Architecture and the senses in the Italian Renaissance'' offers a stimulating new approach to the study of Renaissance architecture and urbanism as a kind of ''experiential trigger'' that shaped ways of both thinking and being in the world.
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Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence, Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fascinating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disasters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn, demographic collapse, and occupation by French and Spanish armies intent on(...)
Venice's most loyal city: Civic identity in Renaissance Brescia
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Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence, Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fascinating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disasters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn, demographic collapse, and occupation by French and Spanish armies intent on dismembering the Venetian empire. In spite of all these troubles the city experienced a cultural revival and a dramatic political transformation under Venetian rule, which Bowd describes and uses to illuminate the process of state formation in one of the most powerful regions of Renaissance Italy.
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Margaret M. D'Evelyn has gathered evidence to document how Andrea Palladio's understanding of Vitruvius influenced Daniele Barbaro. This volume also charts the invention of the illustrated architectural book and how major architect-authors, such as Leon Battista Alberti and Sebastiano Serlio, contributed to its development - demonstrating how Vitruvius shaped the way the(...)
Venice and Vitruvius: reading Venice with Daniele Barbaro and Andrea Palladio
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Margaret M. D'Evelyn has gathered evidence to document how Andrea Palladio's understanding of Vitruvius influenced Daniele Barbaro. This volume also charts the invention of the illustrated architectural book and how major architect-authors, such as Leon Battista Alberti and Sebastiano Serlio, contributed to its development - demonstrating how Vitruvius shaped the way the city of Venice was viewed.
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Though little known in the English-speaking world, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) was one of the most important and influential European baroque architects. The buildings that he designed for the emperor of Austria and his courtiers reveal an element of theatricality - an element that author Esther Gordon Dotson probes in this accessible and attractive(...)
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J.B. Fischer von Erlach: architecture as theater in the baroque era
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Though little known in the English-speaking world, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) was one of the most important and influential European baroque architects. The buildings that he designed for the emperor of Austria and his courtiers reveal an element of theatricality - an element that author Esther Gordon Dotson probes in this accessible and attractive volume. In his architectural designs, Fischer incorporated devices from ceremonial pageantry and scene design, controlled lighting effects, and a sense of dramatic progression in approaching and moving through a building. Dotson identifies these various elements in her close reading of Fischer's structures, and splendid new photographs, taken by Mark Richard Ashton, bring them to life on the printed page. The author guides readers in discovering the theatrical qualities in Fischer's buildings, illuminating their conceptual liveliness, variety, and drama.
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This book discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of artistic creativity.
The Italian renaissance: culture and society in Italy
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This book discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of artistic creativity.
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From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and(...)
The noisy Renaissance: sound, architecture and Florentine urban life
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From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society. Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an “acoustic topography” of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city’s physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious.
Renaissance et baroque
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Longtemps, le terme baroque fut employé pour décrire le style en lequel la Renaissance se serait désintégrée. Renaissance et baroque est le premier ouvrage d’histoire de l’art à envisager les choses autrement et à démontrer que le baroque relève au contraire d’une esthétique propre. Pour définir ses valeurs formelles, le jeune Heinrich Wölfflin va les opposer à celles du(...)
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Renaissance et baroque
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Longtemps, le terme baroque fut employé pour décrire le style en lequel la Renaissance se serait désintégrée. Renaissance et baroque est le premier ouvrage d’histoire de l’art à envisager les choses autrement et à démontrer que le baroque relève au contraire d’une esthétique propre. Pour définir ses valeurs formelles, le jeune Heinrich Wölfflin va les opposer à celles du classicisme de la Renaissance. Il compare les oeuvres de Bramante, Raphaël, Peruzzi, Sangallo, Michel-Ange, Vignole, della Porta, Maderna, et s’appuie sur des exemples romains. À travers l’évolution des styles et des goûts dans la peinture mais surtout dans l’architecture des églises, palais, villas, fontaines et jardins, c’est l’expression de l’état d’âme de la société italienne des XVIe et XVIIe siècles qu’il révèle.