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Creating place in early modern European architecture /

The importance of place - as a unique spatial identity - has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the 'genius loci', or spirit of place, evoked not only the location of a distinct atmosphere or environment, but also the protection of this location, and implicitly, its mak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Merrill, Elizabeth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Colección:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Embracing Specificity, Embracing Place / Elizabeth Merrill ; 1. Architecture on Paper : The Development and Function of Architectural Drawings in the Renaissance / Wolfgang Lèvere
  • Part I. Marking Place. 2. The Santacroce Houses along the Via in Publicolis in Rome : Law, Place and Residential Architecture in the Early Modern Period / Nele De Raedt ; 3. Towards a New Architecture of Cosmic Experience / Noam Andrews ; 4. Architecture for Music : Sonorous Spaces in Sacred Buildings in Renaissance and Baroque Rome / Federico Bellini
  • Part II. Teaching Place. 5. The Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala and the Construction of Siena / Elizabeth Merrill ; 6. Places of Knowledge between Ulm and the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century : The Kunstkammer of Johannes Faulhaber / Paul Brakmann and Sebastian Fitzner ; 7. Nicola Zabaglia's Scaffoldings for the Maintenance of Architectural Space in St. Peter's Basilica and throughout Europe in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Stefan M. Holzer and Nicoletta Marconi
  • Part III. Excavating Place. 8. Building on 'Hollow Land' : Skill and Expertise in Foundation-Laying Practices in the Low Countries in the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries / Merlijn Hurx ; 9. The 'Conquest' and Construction of an Urban Place : The Insula dei Gesuiti in Venice in the Early Modern Period / Ludovica Galazzo ; 10. Exploring the Book of Fortresses / Edward Triplett.