A landmark survey and analysis of Italian Renaissance architecture by an internationally renowned expert in the field. The literature on Italian Renaissance architecture is vast, but every popular account is out-of-date almost before it is written. Once in a generation, however, there is a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. In this new study, Christoph Luitpold Frommel, who has won a worldwide reputation through his contributions to specialist journals in Germany and ...
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A landmark survey and analysis of Italian Renaissance architecture by an internationally renowned expert in the field. The literature on Italian Renaissance architecture is vast, but every popular account is out-of-date almost before it is written. Once in a generation, however, there is a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. In this new study, Christoph Luitpold Frommel, who has won a worldwide reputation through his contributions to specialist journals in Germany and Italy, distills his scholarship into a new synthesis that is both up-to-date and securely based on primary sources. Avoiding the straitjacket of fashionable theory, he organizes the book traditionally by period and architect. Social context, technical innovation, and aesthetic judgment are all given due weight, with particular emphasis on the way in which each architect balanced individual inspiration with the accepted Vitruvian canon. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, plans, and reconstructions, it brings into vivid relief the extraordinary flowering of architectural genius between the birth of Brunelleschi and the death of Michelangelo, a turning point in Western culture whose riches and pleasures prove themselves yet again to be literally inexhaustible. 290 illustrations.
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Add this copy of The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance to cart. $50.00, like new condition, Sold by The Chatham Bookseller rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Madison, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Thames & Hudson.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Quarto. 224 pages. Slate gray boards with embossed Thames & Hudson logo on the cover. Gold lettering on the spine. Barely if any signs of visible wear. Pictorial dust jacket shows an Italian Renaissance museum and has white lettering. Jacket has very light wear along top of the spine and on the back left corner. Blue-gray endpapers. Edges of the pages are lightly toned. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Textblock is square and binding is tight. Features over 300 black and white illustrations. Frommel distills his vast learning into a new synthesis on Italian Renaissance Architecture with both current and primary sources.
Add this copy of Architecture of the Italian Renaissance to cart. $94.08, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Thames & Hudson.
Add this copy of Architecture of the Italian Renaissance to cart. $216.95, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Thames & Hudson.
This is a solid if unadventurous survey of Italian Renaissance architecture. Although the information is reliable and accurate, the author rarely moves beyond the kind of information available in other survey books. It gives greatest attention to the major cities (Florence, Rome, Venice, etc), but almost none to any location south of Rome. This is unfortunate, since the riches of Naples, Sicily, and the rest of southern Italy are ripe for a summary treatment. As he states in the introduction, he has virtually eliminated the context within which buildings were created "in order to appreciate them" and their "basic principles" in a formalist fashion. The best recent scholarship has been contextual, looking at political, religious, economic, social, and intellectual facets of Renaissance architecture previously neglected. However, to its detriment, very little of this context appears in this book. The black and white photos, while usually crisp, are sometimes grim and do not do justice to the sensual qualities of this architecture. For such a large book, the two-page bibliography is disappointing, but the glossary is a useful addition.
