Author and audience in Vitruvius' De architectura /

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 Vitruv...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick, 1981- (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Collection:Greek culture in the Roman world.
Accès en ligne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1602667
Table des matières:
  • Greek knowledge and the Roman world
  • The self-fashioning of scribes
  • House and man
  • Art display and strategies of persuasion
  • The vermilion walls of Faberius scriba.