Architecture and the language debate : artistic and linguistic exchanges in early modern Italy / Nicholas Temple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Temple, Nicholas, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Routledge research in architectural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in architecture--Italy--History.

Communication in architecture.

Architecture and society--Italy--History.

Architecture and society.

Linguistics--Italy--History.

Linguistics.

History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 260 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Nicholas Temple is an architect, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability (CUDAS) at the University of Huddersfield. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, he previously served as head of the School of Architecture at the University of Lincoln and was an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Temple was a Rome Scholar in Architecture at the British School at Rome, a Paul Mellon Rome Fellow and Bogliasco Fellow and has collaborated on research projects on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in Europe and China. His most recent research is a British Academy funded project with Professor Cecilia Panti on Lorenzo Ghiberti's Third Commentary. He was shortlisted for the International CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award in 2014 for his book Renovatio Urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II (Routledge, 2011), and is chief editor of the Routledge Research in Architectural History series and co-editor of the Journal of Architecture.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures

About the cover

Figure credits

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Notes

1. Poetic language in the early Renaissance (volgare versus Latin)

Latin and the vernacular

Council of Florence

Eloquence, rhetoric and grammar

Alberto's grammar of the Tuscan dialect

Certame coronario and poetry

Dante, Florence cathedral and the Tuscan language

Voice and gesture in pictorial space

Cursive script and Roman inscription

Inscribing instaurata

Conclusion

2. Resuscitative language in the late Renaissance (Antiquarianism)

The accretions of ornament

Figurative sculpture

Pirro Ligorio's antiquarianism

The Casino of Pius IV

The agone

3. Universal language in the Baroque (ethnography)

The new Baroque sensibility

Propaganda Fide and the Society of Jesus

Athanasius Kircher and hieroglyphics

Characteristica universalis and combinatorics

Collegio Romano and the four continents

Allegorical quadrature

La Sapienza and the Aristotelian dispute

4. Pastoral language in the early eighteenth century (Arcadianism)

Republic of Letters

History and ethos of the Arcadians

Design and iconography of the Accademia degli Arcadi

The Palazzo Corsini and the architecture of 'buon gusto'

St. Eustachio and the ethos of early Christian architecture

Architecture contests and theatre performances among the Arcadians

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 27, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Other Format:

Print version: Temple, Nicholas. Architecture and the language debate

ISBN:

9781315638492

1315638495

9781317271185

1317271181

9781317271208

1317271203

Publisher Number:

99987756951

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