Well-known for his paintings and his book The Lives of the Artists , Giorgio Vasari also served as court architect to Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, contributing to Medicean legitimacy through such politically symbolic buildings as the Uffizi in Florence. Leon Satkowski presents the first book in any language to survey the architecture of Vasari. By focusing on the architect's service to his distinguished patrons and his collaboration with other architects, Satkowski reveals how Vasari combined imaginative design, ...
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Well-known for his paintings and his book The Lives of the Artists , Giorgio Vasari also served as court architect to Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, contributing to Medicean legitimacy through such politically symbolic buildings as the Uffizi in Florence. Leon Satkowski presents the first book in any language to survey the architecture of Vasari. By focusing on the architect's service to his distinguished patrons and his collaboration with other architects, Satkowski reveals how Vasari combined imaginative design, political meaning, and a clear sense of history to create buildings so appealing to modern students of architecture. Incorporating Vasari's own writings and a close study of his buildings, this book places the architect squarely in the world of Palladio, Vignola, and Ammannati, and shows Vasari as their equal. In addition to the Uffizi, chapters are devoted to Vasari's Del Monte projects in Monte San Savino and Rome, the Corridoio and the renovation of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, religious architecture throughout Tuscany, and urban projects in Pisa and Arezzo that created the physical identity of Cosimo's new state. As a court architect, Vasari had few peers in the proper sense of the term.
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Very Good. Size: 11x1x9; Princeton University Press; Princeton, 1993. Hardcover. Second Printing. A Very Good, black buckram binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, bit of sunning along board and spine edges, mild waving to pages along edges, a hint of sunning to page margins, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 4to[quarto or approx. 11.5 x 13.5 inches], 176pp., notes, bibliography, indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., . no flaws, clean, tightly bound, no writing or markings, no bumps, tears.; xxiv-176pp. text, followed by 239 illustrations and photographs.; examines vasari the architect.
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Used-Like New. Well-known for his paintings and his book The Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari also served as court architect to Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, contributing to Medicean legitimacy through such politically symbolic buildings as the Uffizi in Florence. Leon Satkowski presents the first book in any language to survey the architecture of Vasari. By focusing on the architect's service to his distinguished patrons and his collaboration with other architects, Satkowski reveals how Vasari combined imaginative design, political meaning, and a clear sense of history to create buildings so appealing to modern students of architecture. Incorporating Vasari's own writings and a close study of his buildings, this book places the architect squarely in the world of Palladio, Vignola, and Ammannati, and shows Vasari as their equal. In addition to the Uffizi, chapters are devoted to Vasari's Del Monte projects in Monte San Savino and Rome, the Corridoio and the renovation of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, religious architecture throughout Tuscany, and urban projects in Pisa and Arezzo that created the physical identity of Cosimo's new state. As a court architect, Vasari had few peers in the proper sense of the term.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp xxiv, 176. Original publishers black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Well known for his paintings and his book The Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari also served as court architect to Grand Duke Cosimo I de Medici, contributing to Medicean legitimacy through such politically symbolic buildings as the Uffizi in Florence. Leon Satkowski presents the first book in any language to survey the architecture of Vasari. This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. ISBN: 0691032866 Fine in fine dust jacket. Bookplate of the architect, Ir. M. Bolten.
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154 pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 29x21cm, (354) pp. Contents: The Character & Training of an Architect & a Courtier; Papal Favor: Del Monte Projects in Monte San Savino & Rome; Legitimacy: The Uffizi; Ceremonial and Refuge: The Renovation of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Corridoio; Dominion: State Power & Territorial Architecture: The Church: Religious Architecture in Arrezzo & Florence; Ephemera: Gardens, Temporary Constructions, & the Myth of Medicean Magnificence; Conclusion: Style Criticism & Architecture at Court.
