Italian Renaissance Architecture

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Italian Renaissance Architecture
FROM BRUNELLESCHI TO MICHELANGELO
EDITED BY HENRY A. MILLON
'Essential reading for any serious student ofItalian Renaissance architecture richly illustrated .abounds in new research, fresh ideas and illuminating insights
THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE
T
'he paragons of the Italian Renaissance - Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo, Bramante - were almost without exception architects, not only in practice, but also in the private spheres of their imaginations. Their architectural plans, fantasies and models, as much as the finished buildings, are the records of their extraordinary creative endeavours.
Originally published in conjunction with the major exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italian Renaissance Architecture presents a panorama of civil and religious masterworks by the geniuses who created European architecture, in the form of their fascinating models, plans and designs. Essays by Carl Frommel, Richard Krautheimer, James Ackerman... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Italian Renaissance Architecture
FROM BRUNELLESCHI TO MICHELANGELO
EDITED BY HENRY A. MILLON
'Essential reading for any serious student ofItalian Renaissance architecture richly illustrated .abounds in new research, fresh ideas and illuminating insights
THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE
T
'he paragons of the Italian Renaissance - Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo, Bramante - were almost without exception architects, not only in practice, but also in the private spheres of their imaginations. Their architectural plans, fantasies and models, as much as the finished buildings, are the records of their extraordinary creative endeavours.
Originally published in conjunction with the major exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italian Renaissance Architecture presents a panorama of civil and religious masterworks by the geniuses who created European architecture, in the form of their fascinating models, plans and designs. Essays by Carl Frommel, Richard Krautheimer, James Ackerman and other distinguished contributors consider architecture, architectural modelling and urban planning in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, reaching as far back as ancient Rome to uncover the roots of this great tradition. The works are analysed historically from the dual viewpoints of Renaissance humanism and modern critical re-appraisal. The essays cover French and German Renaissance architecture as well as Italian, and also consider architecture's relationship with other arts, such as painting, stage design and sculpture.
Architecture provided a medium for some of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance, and their work set the pattern for all subsequent development in Europe. The idiom they created is here given expression in the abridged paperback edition of the most complete and authoritative corpus ever published on the subject.
Henry A. Millon is Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
With over 525 illustrations, 290 in colour
On the cover: Domenico Cresti da Passignano , Michelangelo Presenting his Model to Pope Paul IV, Florence, Casa Buonarroti Vissza