Italian Architecture
Title | Italian Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hopkins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780500203613 |
The years from 1520 to 1630 were crucial in the development of Western architecture, but to label as Mannerist the transition from Michelangelo's "licentious" New Sacristy in Florence to Borromini's innovative S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane is coming to seem unduly simplistic. In this carefully researched and original study, Andrew Hopkins examines the century's changing functional demands, the political forces, the patronage system, and local traditions. Exploring a wide range of Italian buildings (including those outside the major urban centers), he introduces us to dozens of neglected architects whose works will come as a revelation. By 1630, architecture had taken on a new dynamism that would soon conquer Italy, Europe, and the New World: the baroque. 209 b/w illustrations.
Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750
Title | Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750 PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Wittkower |
Publisher | Puffin Books |
Total Pages | 672 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Art and Architecture in Italy 1250 to 1400
Title | Art and Architecture in Italy 1250 to 1400 PDF eBook |
Author | John White |
Publisher | Puffin |
Total Pages | 688 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750
Title | Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750 PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Wittkower |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300079418 |
This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower's text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now published in three volumes-will also include color illustrations for the first time.
The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays
Title | The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Rowe |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1982-09-14 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262680370 |
This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.
Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750
Title | Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750 PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Wittkower |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 506 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780300078909 |
Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400
Title | Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400 PDF eBook |
Author | John White |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 690 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300055856 |
The 14th century in Italian art is a very rich one, and Professor White's book gives architecture equal weight with painting and sculpture. The story of the Gothic style and the prehistory of the Renaissance is given: all the facts are related, but also the works of art are described with insight and for their own sakes, and not simply as data for fitting into schemes and theories. Among the great names are those of Arnolfo di Cambio, the Pisani, Cavallini, Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, Simone Martini, and the Lorenzetti; among the buildings S. Croce, S. Maria Novella, the cathedral and the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and the cathedrals of Siena, Orvieto, and Milan, as well as churches, castles, and civic buildings from the Val d'Aosta to Sicily. The third edition of this work includes colour illustrations and incorporates textual revisions and an updated bibliography.