Architectural invention in Renaissance Rome : artists, humanists, and the planning of Raphael's Villa Madama / Yvonne Elet, Vassar College.
By: Elet, Yvonne [author.].
Contributor(s): Sperulo, Francesco.
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2017Description: 337 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107130524 (hardback).Subject(s): Sperulo, Francesco, active 15th-16th century -- Influence | Raphael, 1483-1520 -- Criticism and interpretation | Raphael, 1483-1520 -- Friends and associates | Villa Madama (Rome, Italy) | Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome | Humanism in architecture -- Italy -- Rome | Architectural practice -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century | Group work in architecture -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century | HISTORY / Renaissance | Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etcGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | NA1120 .E45 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000014021 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface and acknowledgements; Note on translations and abbreviations; Introduction. The nature of invention, in word and image; 1. Reviving the corpse; 2. Writing architecture; 3. Sperulo's vision; 4. Encomia of the unbuilt; 5. Metastructures of word and image; 6. Dynamic design; Conclusion. Building with mortar and verse; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
"Humanist collaborators also contributed to the development of visual projects in many ways. That they served as advisors and propagandists is well known, but we have scant knowledge of exactly how they worked with artists, and especially with architects. How did their ideas make their way into form? The role of the humanist advisor has been studied primarily in respect to the representational media of painting and sculpture, focusing on so-called iconographic programs or inventions; but their role in architectural projects is much less understood"--