The Story of Renaissance Architecture
The Story of Renaissance Architecture

Author: Sonia Servida

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791345970

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"This volume features the Renaissance period's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. This book offers a general introduction to the period and discusses the primary characteristics of the style, along with commonly used techniques and materials. The Renaissance began in fifteenth-century Italy as an attempt to review Rome's Golden Age. Some ot the most recognizable Renaissance structures featured here are the Palais de Fontainebleau in France, the Ducal Palace of Urbino in Italy and St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City"--Back cover.

Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome
Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome

Author: John Barrington Bayley

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-29

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0486267210

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Drawn from five large volumes published between 1825 and 1882, this student's edition showcases the architectural splendor of Renaissance Rome for a new generation. Paul Letarouilly's original work constitutes the standard reference, presenting the most complete collection of plans, elevations, and details of great buildings and monuments designed by Michelangelo, Peruzzi, Vignola, Bernini, and many others.

The Ruin of the Eternal City
The Ruin of the Eternal City

Author: David Karmon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0199766894

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The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.

The Renaissance in Rome
The Renaissance in Rome

Author: Charles L. Stinger

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1998-09-22

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780253212085

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Probes the basic attitudes, the underlying values and the core convictions that Rome's intellectuals and artists experienced, lived for, and believed in from Pope Eugenius IV's reign to the Eternal City in 1443 to the sacking of 1527.

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Christoph Luitpold Frommel

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780500342206

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Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and 35 key architects. Examines social context, religious beliefs, political power-structures, technical innovation, aesthetic judgement . Includes over 300 photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions. Sure to be the recognized textbook for the foreseeable future.

The First Book of Architecture
The First Book of Architecture

Author: Andrea Palladio

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017473704

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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.

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Peter Murray

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Guides the reader from the earliest revivals of Roman style to the villas of Palladio and Vignola. Each of the great architects is clearly and sensitively discussed. 202 illustrations.