TY  - GEN
T1  - Author and audience in Vitruvius' De architectura
T2  - Greek culture in the Roman world.
A1  - Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick, 1981-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1012743586
AB  - Vitruvius' 'De architectura' is the only extant classical text on architecture whose impact on Renaissance masters, including Leonardo da Vinci, is well known. But what was the text's purpose in its own time (c.20s BCE)? In this book, Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols reveals how Vitruvius pitched the Greek discipline of architecture to his elite Roman readers, most of whom were undoubtedly laymen. The inaccuracy of Vitruvius' architectural rules, when compared with surviving ancient buildings, has knocked him off his pedestal. Nichols argues that the author never intended to provide an accurate view of contemporary buildings. Instead, Vitruvius crafted his authorial persona and remarks on architecture to appeal to elites (and would-be elites) eager to secure their positions within an expanding empire. This is the first analysis of 'De architectura' from archaeological and literary perspectives. Vitruvius emerges as a knowing critic of a social landscape in which the house made the man.
OP  - 238
NO  - Revision of the author's thesis (university of cambridge, 2009) under the title: vitruvius and the rhetoric of display: wall painting, domestic architecture and roman self-fashioning.
CN  - PA6970 .N53 2017
SN  - 9781107003125
SN  - 1107003121
SN  - 9781108547864
SN  - 1108547869
SN  - 9780511758591
SN  - 0511758596
SN  - 1108546765
SN  - 9781108546768
SN  - alk. paper)
KW  - Vitruvius Pollio. : De architectura : Criticism, Textual.
KW  - De architectura (Vitruvius Pollio)
KW  - Authors and readers : Rome.
KW  - Architecture and society : Rome.
KW  - Écrivains et lecteurs : Rome.
KW  - Architecture et société : Rome.
KW  - ARCHITECTURE : Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
KW  - ARCHITECTURE : Buildings : Landmarks & Monuments.
KW  - ARCHITECTURE : Professional Practice.
KW  - ARCHITECTURE : Reference.
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -