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"This analysis of a large, unified body of student drawings from the first public competitions of the Accademia di San Luca, held between 1675 and 1700, brings to light a critical juncture in the Late Baroque. In ""Architectural Diplomacy"", Gil Smith observes that at a time when building activity in Rome was greatly diminished, the Accademia became a successful laboratory of ideas where design methods, such as the productive fusing of French and Italian Baroque traditions, were tested for perhaps the first time before becoming common coin in 18th-century architecture. Smith uses these public competitions, held for the 25 years after the Accademia's union with the French academies, as evidence that the Accademia was of central importance to the architectural history of the Baroque. It was also a place where new typologies and design methods arising from exchanges between French and Roman architectural traditions could flourish, and an important source of inspiration for such prominent architects of the next century as J.B. Fischer von Erlach, Filippo Juvarra, and others who searched for a progressive, synthetic Baroque language. The drawings also provide a means of studying the influence of such teachers and architect-academicians as Mattia de Rossi and Carlo Fontana (two heirs of Bernini) on a generation of young architects. Smith points out that it was Fontana in particular who consciously pursued synthesis as design methodology in order to revitalize traditions of Roman architecture."

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Author:   Gil R. Smith
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.70cm
Weight:   1.362kg
ISBN:  

9780262193238

ISBN 10:   026219323
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   13 April 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

LIST OF ABRREVIATIONS PREFACE. PART 1 AGGREGATION OF THE ROMAN AND FRENCH ACADEMIES- UNION OF CONVENIENCE OR STRATEGIC ALLIANCE?: Architecture at the Academies to 1675; The Union of the Academies. PART 2 CONCORSO OF 1677: The Task; The Competitors: Chupin, D'Aviler, Desgots: The Outcome. PART 3 THE INTERIM YEARS: 1678 TO 1692: The Fate of Relations Between Paris and Rome; Domenico Martinelli - Concorso of 1679; Filippo di Leti - Concorso of 1680; Romano Carapecchia - Concorso of 1681; Jan Reissner of Poland - Concorso of 1682; The Hiatus of 1683 to 1691; Filippo Barigioni - Concorso of 1692. PART 4 CONCORSI OF 1694 AND 1696: Carlo Fontana and the Centenary of the Accademia; Competitions in the First Class - Pompeo Ferrari; Competitions in the Second and Third Classes - Alessandro Rossini and Ludovico Rusconi-Sassi; The Legacy of the Competitions. PART 5 SYNTHESIS AS DESIGN IMPERATIVE AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE LATE BAROQUE. APPENDIX A: CATALOG OF THE DRAWINGS. APPENDIX B: SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS.

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