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Analyses 100 important buildings of the Italian Renaissance, focusing on each building's outstanding characteristics, and the origin and evolution of its design
The author uses a range of published and unpublished sources, and covers Italy, France, Britain, Spain, Germany and The Netherlands to explore the ethics, aesthetics and vanities of ambitious building.
The period known as the Renaissance brought about sweeping changes in all areas of European culture. This book looks at innovations in architecture of the time. 400 illustrations, 230 in color.
"This study was an investigation of the formal elements of Renaissance architecture, which were transformed and reinterpreted from the Roman style by Florentine architects of the fifteenth century. Fourteen significant examples of Renaissance architecture were researched, visited, and sketched in an attempt to understand the interrelationships of structure, function, and site to the composition of mass, space, facade, and ornament. The formal expression of the basic architecutral elements of base, window, corner, cornice, and column were examined individually and then considered collectively in the facade composition"--Preface.
These essays consider both architecture and urban planning in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, and French and German Renaissance architecture, stage designs and the relationship of architecture with the other arts. The works are analyzed historically from the viewpoint of both the humanist Renaissance theories and of modern critical reappraisals. Reproducing and describing numerous designs, projects and manuscripts by Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo and Bramante among others, this volume presents a panorama of civil and religious masterworks by those who created European architecture.