Emulating Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emulating Antiquity write by David Hemsoll. This book was released on 2019-11-05. Emulating Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope--first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century--that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.
The Ancient Art of Emulation
The Ancient Art of Emulation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Art of Emulation write by Elaine K. Gazda. This book was released on 2002. The Ancient Art of Emulation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?
The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture
The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture write by David Mayernik. This book was released on 2016-04-01. The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.
Aesthetics from Ancient China
Aesthetics from Ancient China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetics from Ancient China write by Yonghao Wang. This book was released on . Aesthetics from Ancient China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fenestration Practice and Theory in Early Modern Europe
Fenestration Practice and Theory in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fenestration Practice and Theory in Early Modern Europe write by Hentie Louw. This book was released on 2024-06-05. Fenestration Practice and Theory in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the transformation of the window during the Early Modern Period in Europe. Following the Italian Renaissance, new stylistic norms for modern ‘classical windows’ had to be invented. Building a new classical repertoire drew on existing traditions in fenestration as local builders throughout Europe struggled with the constraints of varying climatic conditions, customs and physical resources in pursuit of a broader vision of an international classical revival. With the Renaissance, the architectural emphasis shifted towards secular design and, as the classical revival gained momentum, a quest for a cultured lifestyle commensurate with the new architecture increased demand for sophisticated fenestration systems in civil architecture. The movement coincided with a period of dramatic climate change, the so-called Little Ice Age (c. 1450 – c.1850), adding urgency to the campaign for transforming fenestration practice. By the late seventeenth century, Northern European builders had developed appropriate indigenous ‘classical’ window forms for their respective societies – functional products sophisticated enough to form the basis of new architectural styles: northern classical traditions that rivalled (and in some respects, surpassed) those created in Italy. Their achievement was embodied in the two flagships of the movement: the Franco-Italian folding casement (the ‘French window’), and the English mechanical sliding window (the ‘sash window’).
