Anthony Gerbino

François Blondel (eBook, PDF)

Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It studies early modern science and technology, Baroque court culture, and the development of the discipline of architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135694807
• Artikelnr.: 38258246

Autorenporträt

Anthony Gerbino is a historian of early modern architecture in France and England. His research focuses on the role of architecture in seventeenth-century scientific and academic circles and on the technical and mathematical background of early modern architects, engineers, and gardeners. He is an Associate Member of Worcester College at the University of Oxford and co-author of Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England 1500-1750 (Yale University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Mathematician, Engineer, Courtier 2. The Rebirth of French
Classicism I: The Académie 3. The Rebirth of French Classicism II: Paris 4.
Architects and Mathematicians 5. Architecture versus Erudition: The
Perrault-Blondel Debate Revisited 6. Reading and Collecting Conclusion:
Blondel's Nachleben Appendices