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Author:   Ingrid Rowland ,  Sinclair Bell
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   27
Weight:   1.408kg
ISBN:  

9789004270671

ISBN 10:   9004270671
Pages:   748
Publication Date:   28 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface: Vitruvius, Unwitting Hero of Our Times  Paolo Clini Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell Part 1: Transmission 1 Vitruvius from Manuscript to Print  Ingrid Rowland Part 2: Translation 2 Raphael and Fabio Calvo  Francesco P. Di Teodoro 3 On the Vitruvius of Cesare Cesariano  Alessandro Rovetta and Jessica Gritti 4 Who Was Vitruvius? a Renaissance Debate  Paul Davies and David Hemsoll 5 The Medieval Vitruvius  Wim Verbaal 6 Alberti and Vitruvius: Reception and Rejection of the Model in De re aedificatoria  Martin McLaughlin 7 Verona and Vitruvius  Paul Davies and David Hemsoll 8 Vitruvius in Bramante’s Rome: Recovery, Interpretation, and Use of the Ancient Text  Ann C. Huppert 9 Vitruvius’ Educational Program in Antiquity and the Renaissance  Daniel E. Harris-McCoy 10 Sangallo, Tolomei, and the Program of the Accademia de lo Studio de l’Architettura on Vitruvius and Ancient Architecture  Bernd Kulawik 11 Vitruvius and Guarino Guarini  Susan Klaiber 12 Hermosura and Belleza in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Editions of Vitruvius  Victor Deupi 13 Making Vitruvius Speak English: Vitruvius and English Architecture up to Vitruvius Britannicus  Vaughan Hart 14 Vitruvius in the German-Speaking World  Werner Oechslin Part 4: Practice 15 Archaeological Perspectives on Vitruvius  Rabun Taylor 16 Vitruvius and Ancient Construction Method  Lynne C. Lancaster 17 How the opus francigenum Became the “Gothic” Style  Michel Paoli 18 Vitruvius and the Early Modern Worksite  David Karmon 19 Vitruvius and the Sangallos  Francesco Marcorin 20 Vitruvius and Palladio  Francesco Marcorin 21 Vitruvius and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns  Thomas Noble Howe Part 5: Vitruvian Topics 22 Echeia  Robert Godman 23 Scamilli Impares  Thomas Noble Howe 24 Vitruvius’ Science of Machines: Tradition or Innovation?  Giovanni Di Pasquale 25 Vitruvius’ Historiae and the Love of Learning  Antonio Becchi 26 The Invention of the Vitruvian Man: Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci, and Beyond  Francesca Fiorani Index

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Ingrid D. Rowland lives in Rome, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely, including a translation of Vitruvius (Cambridge 1999; with Thomas Howe). She won the inaugural Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021. Sinclair W. Bell lives in Chicago. He is the editor of several volumes concerned with the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Italy, and previously served as Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Contributors are: Antonio Becchi, Paul Davies, Victor Deupi, Francesca Fiorani, Rob Godman, Jessica Gritti, Daniel Harris-McCoy, Vaughan Hart, David Hemsoll, Thomas Noble Howe, Susan Klaiber, Bernd Kulawik, Lynne Lancaster, Martin McLaughlin, Michel Paoli, Rabun Taylor, Wim Verbaal.

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