Icons of Renaissance architecture / Alexander Markschies.
Title:
Icons of Renaissance architecture / Alexander Markschies.
Other Title:
Renaissance
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Ikonen der Renaissance--Architektur. English
Publication:
Munich ; New York : Prestel, [2003]
Copyright:
©2003
Publication Date:
2003
ISBN:
9783791328416
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-143) and index.
Contents:
Foundling's Hospital -- Palazzo Medici -- Santo Spirito -- Palazzo Rucellai -- Santa Maria Novella -- Pienza -- Palazzo Ducale -- Sant' Andrea -- The Kremlin -- Santa Maria Presso San Satiro -- Santa Maria Dei Miracoli -- Palazzo Della Cancelleria -- Palazzo Strozzi -- Vladislav Hall -- The Tempietto -- Hieronymite Monastery of Belém -- The Wawel -- The Bakócz Chapel -- Palais de Sayoy -- Santa Maria Della Consolazione -- Heidelberg Castle -- Villa Farnesina -- The Fugger Chapel -- Palazzo Farnese -- Hampton Court -- Château of Blois -- The Sigismund Chapel -- Château of Chambord -- Biblioteca Laurenziana -- Palazzo del Tè -- Palace of Charles V -- Château of Fontainebleau -- Granada Cathedral -- Piazza San Marco -- Saint-Eustache -- Hartenfels Palace -- The Old Registry -- Landshut Residence -- The Capitol -- The Belvedere -- Château of Ancy-Le-Franc -- The Louvre -- Château of Anet -- Poznań Town Hall -- Villa Hvezda -- Leipzig Town Hall -- Burghley House -- St. Peter's -- Palazzo Farnese -- The Uffizi -- Palazzo Pitti -- Antwerp Town Hall -- El Escorial -- The Villa Rotonda -- Cologne Town Hall Loggia -- Il Gesù -- The Hall of Antiquities -- Il Redentore -- Jesuit Church of St. Michael -- Juleum -- The Great Armoury -- Augsburg Town Hall -- The Banqueting House.
Abstract:
"The Renaissance was aesthetically one of the most demanding and fascinating periods in the history of architecture. It developed out of Filippo Brunelleschi's Foundlings' Hospital in Florence and subsequently evolved into a pan-European phenomenon, the end of this period being marked by works by Carlo Maderno, Inigo Jones and Elias Holl. The style is based on rationality and clarity, the harmony of proportions and a balanced relationship between the individual and the whole. Influenced by Classical models, there was a growing awareness in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that something new could be created, something new that could be compared to the art of the ancient world." "As opposed to other works on Renaissance architecture, this publication does not focus solely on Italy with its buildings and urban areas in central and northern Italy and the palace architecture of Mantua and Urbino. The inclusion of the 'Italian architectural model' in the buildings of other European countries is also treated in depth. Readers can relish in a delightfully varied and often surprising panorama of Renaissance architecture reaching out from Italy to Germany, France, England, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Russia. This volume captures the rediscovery of harmony in architecture throughout Europe by focusing on the most impressive buildings and describing this development in exquisite photographs, numerous drawings and explanatory texts, placing the buildings in their appropriate architectural, cultural and historical setting. Interesting details about patrons, a building's specific requirements, its function and the impression it was intended to make are also discussed."--Jacket.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Language:
English
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