Charles Burroughs

The Italian Renaissance Palace Fa Ade

Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A theoretical and anthropological study of the Italian Renaissance Palace in the sixteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521109734
• ISBN-10: 0521109736
• Artikelnr.: 26010659

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The forked road to modernity: ambiguities of the Renaissance facade
2. Domestic architecture and Boccaccian drama: court and city in Florentine culture
3. Between opacity and rhetoric: the facade in Trecento Florence
4. The facade in question: Brunelleschi
5. The bones of grammar and the rhetoric of flesh
6. Setting and subject: the city of presences and the street as stage
7. Bramante and the emblematic facade
8. Facades on parade: architecture between court and city
9. From street to territory: projections of the urban facade
Notes
Bibliography
Index.