Emulating Antiquity

Author : David Hemsoll
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300225761

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Emulating Antiquity by David Hemsoll Pdf

A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope--first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century--that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.

Author : David Mayernik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317039259

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The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture by David Mayernik Pdf

Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.

Author : Jóhann Páll Árnason
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 3515077472

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Agon, Logos, Polis by Jóhann Páll Árnason Pdf

Ten papers, from a conference held at Ohio State University in 1997, reconsider Greek experience and its lessons for later cultures from a variety of perspectives. The contributions reflect in particular the central role of politics and the `Polis', so distinctively and uniquely Greek, in the development of Greek culture. The papers also consider Greek philosophy, drama and the Greek view of the natural and divine world around them and demonstrate the continuing influence of Hellenism by discussing modern adaptations of Greek models. Contributors include Johann Arnason, Cornelius Castoriadis, Vassilis Lambropoulos, Christian Meier, Oswyn Murray, Peter Murphy, Kurt Raaflaub, Louis Ruprecht, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317280231

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Foundations of Modern Historical Thought by Paul Avis Pdf

The emergence of a sense of the past in Renaissance humanism gave rise to a new historical consciousness about the meaning of history and methods of historical enquiry. This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most influential thinkers of Western culture, from Machiavelli’s reflections on history and power to the revolutionary intuitions of Giambattista Vico’s New Science of historical understanding, taking in Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Leibniz and Bayle on the way.

Author : Carla Keyvanian
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307551

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Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500 by Carla Keyvanian Pdf

In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 – 1500, Carla Keyvanian reconstructs three centuries of urban history by focusing on public hospitals, state institutions that were urban expressions of sovereignty, characterized by a distinguishing architecture and built in prime urban locations.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198700395

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Italy in the Age of the Renaissance by John M. Najemy Pdf

"The twelve essays in this volume present an introduction to Italian Renaissance society, intellectual history, and politics" -- provided by publisher.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 8677 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317268086

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Routledge Library Editions: Historiography by Various Pdf

The greatest problem in historical scholarship, theoretically and practically, is the relation between historians and their subject matter. The past is gone and historians can only study its remnants. On what basis do scholars select certain facts from the mass of data left from the past? How do they explain the interrelationship of the facts they select? What criteria do they use to evaluate their subject? The 35 volumes in this set, originally published between 1926 and 1990 discuss and answer these essential questions faced by historians. The development of historical understanding during the 18th and 19th centuries was one of the most striking features of Western culture. Both historiography and historical thinking advanced as never before. The historial movment of the 19th century was perhaps second only to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in transforming Western thought. One consequence was extensive organisation and professionalization of research, which the volumes in this set reflect.

Author : Efraim Podoksik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004416840

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Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Efraim Podoksik Pdf

Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany, edited by Efraim Podoksik, examines the ways in which the humanities were practised by German thinkers and scholars in the long nineteenth century and the relevance of those practices for the humanities today.

Author : Amelia Rauser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300241204

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The Age of Undress by Amelia Rauser Pdf

Exploring the popularity and meaning of neoclassical dress in the 1790s, this book traces its evolution in Europe and relationship to other artistic media.

Author : Edward H. Wouk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004343252

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Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance by Edward H. Wouk Pdf

Frans Floris de Vriendt was among the most celebrated Netherlandish artists of the sixteenth-century, more renowned in his day than Bruegel the Elder. This book relates Floris’s hybridizing art to the social, religious, and political crises reshaping his society.

Author : Elaine K. Gazda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472111892

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The Ancient Art of Emulation by Elaine K. Gazda Pdf

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

Author : William E. Wallace
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815318235

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Michelangelo, Selected Scholarship in English: Life and early works by William E. Wallace Pdf

The volume begins with overviews of Michelangelo's life and work and contains more focused essays on the artist's political thought and his chief biographers, Ascanio Condivi and Giorgio Vasari. Other articles survey Michelangelo's early career and principal works, including the Rome "Piet," the "David, " the "Doni Tondo," and his commission to paint the "Battle of Cascina" in competition with Leonardo da Vinci.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004688704

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius by Anonim Pdf

As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600002757

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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2FY1

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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf