Bearers of meaning : the classical orders in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance / John Onians.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onians, John, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Princeton University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Orders.

Architecture.

Architecture, Ancient--Influence.

Architecture, Ancient.

Architecture, Renaissance.

Architecture, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

©1990

Place of Publication:

Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1988]

Summary:

"For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,000 years from their first appearance in ancient Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the orders -- the columns and capitals known as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite -- were made to serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Classical Greece

The Hellenistic world and the Roman Republic

Vitruvius

The Roman Empire

Early Christianity

The column in the Christian Middle Ages

The orders in the Christian Middle Ages

The crisis of architecture : medieval and renaissance

The Tuscan Renaissance

Alberti

Filarete

Francesco di Giorgio Martini

Architects and theories in the later fifteenth century

A new Christian architecture

Francesco Colonna

Luca Pacioli

Bramante

Raphael

Serlio

Serlio's Venice : Sansovino, Aretino, Titian, and Vasari

Sixteenth-century choices.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on February 7, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-342) and index.

ISBN:

9780691040431

0691040435

OCLC:

767699603