Bearers of meaning : the classical orders in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance /
For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,000 years from their first appearance in ancient...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
[1988]
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv173f208 |
Sommario:
- Classical Greece
- The Hellenistic world and the Roman Republic
- Vitruvius
- The Roman Empire
- Early Christianity
- The column in the Christian Middle Ages
- The orders in the Christian Middle Ages
- The crisis of architecture : medieval and renaissance
- The Tuscan Renaissance
- Alberti
- Filarete
- Francesco di Giorgio Martini
- Architects and theories in the later fifteenth century
- A new Christian architecture
- Francesco Colonna
- Luca Pacioli
- Bramante
- Raphael
- Serlio
- Serlio's Venice : Sansovino, Aretino, Titian, and Vasari
- Sixteenth-century choices.