Architectural invention in Renaissance Rome : artists, humanists, and the planning of Raphael's Villa Madama / Yvonne Elet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elet, Yvonne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sperulo, Francesco, active 15th-16th century--Influence.

Sperulo, Francesco.

Raphael, 1483-1520--Criticism and interpretation.

Raphael.

Raphael, 1483-1520--Friends and associates.

Villa Madama (Rome, Italy).

Architecture, Renaissance--Italy--Rome.

Architecture, Renaissance.

Humanism in architecture--Italy--Rome.

Humanism in architecture.

Architectural practice--Italy--Rome--History--16th century.

Architectural practice.

Group work in architecture--Italy--Rome--History--16th century.

Group work in architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface and acknowledgements; Note on translations and abbreviations; Introduction. The nature of invention, in word and image; 1. Reviving the corpse; 2. Writing architecture; 3. Sperulo's vision; 4. Encomia of the unbuilt; 5. Metastructures of word and image; 6. Dynamic design; Conclusion. Building with mortar and verse; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-41816-2

1-108-21611-0