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Pliny the Elder and the emergence of Renaissance architecture /
This book is the first to demonstrate the extent of Pliny's contribution to Italian Renaissance architecture.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Editorial Note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Pliny the Elder and His Place in Antique and Mediaeval Writings on Architecture; Plates ; Part I Pliny the Elder and Antiquarian Studies of the Roman Ruins ; Chapter Two Initial Explorations: Petrarch, the Mirabilia urbis Romae, and Flavio Biondo; Chapter Three The Manuscript Hunter and the Librarian: Poggio Bracciolini and Giovanni Tortelli; Chapter Four A New System: Pomponio Leto and His School; Chapter Five Emerging Doubts.
- Part II Pliny the Elder and Architectural Writings Chapter Six Pliny and Leon Battista Alberti: Two "Architectural Histories"; Chapter Seven Pliny, Filarete, and the Ideal Patron of Architecture; Chapter Eight "Aldus and His Dream Book": The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; Chapter Nine A More Down-to-Earth Pliny; Chapter Ten Mixing the Traditions: The Curious Case of Cesare Cesariano; Chapter Eleven Developments in the Veneto: The Vitruvian Commentaries of Daniele Barbaro and I quattro libri by Andrea Palladio; Part III Pliny the Elder, Architectural Drawings, and Built Monuments.
- Chapter Twelve Standing before the Marvels: Ciriaco d'Ancona and Pliny's opera mirabilia in terrisChapter Thirteen In the Mind's Eye: Drawings of Plinian Wonders, from Leonardo to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; Chapter Fourteen From Paper to Stone: Rebuilding Pliny's Architectural Marvels; Final Thoughts: Pliny's Influence on the Renaissance Understanding of Ancient Architecture; Appendix I Editions of the Naturalis historia Printed in Italy during the Fifteenth Century ; Appendix II Editions of De Architectura Printed In Italy During The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries ; Notes.