The Renaissance Palace in Florence
The Renaissance Palace in Florence

Author: JamesR. Lindow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1351541056

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This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence, when applied to private palaces, extended beyond the exterior to include the interior as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed. Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo from a new perspective, Lindow's groundbreaking study considers these buildings comprehensively as complete entities, from the exterior through to the interior. This book highlights the ways in which classical theory and Renaissance practice intersected in quattrocento Florence. Using unpublished inventories, private documents and surviving domestic objects, The Renaissance Palace in Florence offers a more nuanced understanding of the early modern urban palace.

A Renaissance Architecture of Power
A Renaissance Architecture of Power

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 9004315500

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The growth of princely states in early Renaissance Italy brought a thorough renewal to the old seats of power. One of the most conspicuous outcomes of this process was the building or rebuilding of new court palaces, erected as prestigious residences in accord with the new ‘classical’ principles of Renaissance architecture. The novelties, however, went far beyond architectural forms: they involved the reorganisation of courtly interiors and their functions, new uses for the buildings, and the relationship between the palaces and their surroundings. The whole urban setting was affected by these processes, and therefore the social, residential and political customs of its inhabitants. This is the focus of A Renaissance Architecture of Power, which aims to analyse from a comparative perspective the evolution of Italian court palaces in the Renaissance in their entirety. Contributors are Silvia Beltramo, Flavia Cantatore, Bianca de Divitiis, Emanuela Ferretti, Marco Folin, Giulio Girondi, Andrea Longhi, Marco Rosario Nobile, Aurora Scotti, Elena Svalduz, and Stefano Zaggia.

Paper Palaces
Paper Palaces

Author: Vaughan Hart

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780300075304

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A collection of essays examining early editions of Vitruvius' writings and all the major Renaissance architectural treatises by authors such as Alberti, Di Giorgio, Colonna, Serlio, and Palladio. The authors look at the significance of the treaty in the Renaissance, and trace its decline in the late 17th century.

Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome
Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome

Author: Yvonne Elet

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1108216110

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Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. The creation of this important, unfinished complex provides a remarkable case study for the nature of architectural invention. Drawing on little known poetry describing the villa while it was on the drawing board, as well as ground plans, letters, and antiquities once installed there, Yvonne Elet reveals the design process to have been a dynamic, collaborative effort involving humanists as well as architects. She explores design as a self-reflexive process, and the dialectic of text and architectural form, illuminating the relation of word and image in Renaissance architectural practice. Her revisionist account of architectural design as a process engaging different systems of knowledge, visual and verbal, has important implications for the relation of architecture and language, meaning in architecture, and the translation of idea into form.

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

Author: Abigail Brundin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0192548484

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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within the household. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as miracles and visions, frequently took place at home amid the joys and trials of domestic life -- from childbirth and marriage to sickness and death. Breaking free from the usual focus on Venice, Florence, and Rome, The Sacred Home investigates practices of piety across the Italian peninsula, with particular attention paid to the city of Naples, the Marche, and the Venetian mainland. It also looks beyond the elite to consider artisanal and lower-status households, and reveals gender and age as factors that powerfully conditioned religious experience. Recovering a host of lost voices and compelling narratives at the intersection between the divine and the everyday, The Sacred Home offers unprecedented glimpses through the keyhole into the spiritual lives of Renaissance Italians.

Palaces of Rome
Palaces of Rome

Author: Fabio Benzi

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780847820566

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Built by the greatest architects of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, decorated by the most important artists of Italy, Roman palaces are grand beyond description. This magnificent book showcases 24 such dwellings--from the Palazzo Farnese, designed by Michelangelo, to the Palazzo Quirinale, headquarters of the President of the Republic--all photographed by the renowned Roberto Schezen. 450 color illustrations.