Barbara Kenda (ed.)

Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture

Academia Eolia Revisited
Herausgeber: Kenda, Barbara

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Galen, Trento, Romano, Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, Scamozzi and other thinkers and humanists. Moreover, the essays illustrate the most famous examples of hygienico-therapeutic villas, including Rotonda, La Rocca Pisana and Eolia, a pneumatic model of Renaissance Venetian architecture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780415398046
• ISBN-10: 0415398045
• Artikelnr.: 22510204

Autorenporträt

Barbara Kenda is a Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame. She is the author of several articles on pneumatic architecture. Recently, she was a senior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Chasma Ges: Delphic Pneuma and the Cult of Asklepios 3.
'Study the Warm Winds and the Cold': Hippocrates and the Renaissance Villa
4. The Role of the Winds in the Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to
Scamozzi 5. Making Visible the Invisible: Signs of Aer in Renaissance
Treatises 6. Poetry and 'Spirited' Ancient Sculpture in Renaissance Rome:
Pomponio Leto's Academy to the Sixteenth-Century Sculpture Garden 7. The
Winds in the Corners: Giulio Romano, The Elements and the Palazzo Te's Fall
of the Giants 8. The Breath of Cities