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Leon Battista Alberti's hypnerotomachia poliphili : re-cognizing the architectural body in the early Italian Renaissance / Liane Lefaivre.
LIBRA PQ4619.C9 Z76 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lefaivre, Liane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472--Criticism and interpretation.
- Alberti, Leon Battista.
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472--Authorship.
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
- Architecture, Renaissance--Italy.
- Architecture, Renaissance.
- Authorship.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2005.
- Summary:
- Liane Lefaivre offers the closest critical-theoretical reading of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili to date, placing it within both the historical context of the quattrocento and the rethinking of the metaphor of the architectural body.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1997.
- ISBN:
- 0262621959
- 9780262621953
- OCLC:
- 58052060
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