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9780521178235

The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture

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    9780521178235

  • ISBN10:

    0521178231

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-04-14
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism. Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central issue around which much of this debate focused.

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Of archaeology and license
Vitruvius
Literary grids and artistic intersections
Alberti
Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Serlio and the theoretization of ornament
Spini and the Architectural Imitatio
Palladio and Aesthetics Necessita; Scamozzi and Gesamttheorie
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