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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Автор: Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick, 1981- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Серія:Greek culture in the Roman world.
Онлайн доступ:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1602667
Зміст:
  • 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.