The story of Renaissance architecture
Servida, Sonia2011
Book
Renaissance began in fifteenth-century Italy as an attempt to revive Rome's Golden Age. Its orderly use of columns, domes, arches, and entablatures recalls classic Roman architecture, but adapted for contemporary use in churches and urban dwellings. Some of the most recognisable Renaissance structures are the Chateau de Fontainebleau, the Ducal Palace at Urbino, England's Greenwich Hospital, and St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican City. This book features the Renaissance period's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, and drawings and plans. It offers a general introduction to the period and discusses the primary characteristics of the style, along with commonly used techniques and materials.
Main title:
The story of Renaissance architecture / Sonia Servida ; translation: Bridget Mason.
Author:
Servida, Sonia, authorMason, Bridget (Translator), translator
Edition:
English edition.
Imprint:
Munich : Prestel, [2011]©2011.
Collation:
143 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), plans ; 26 cm.
Notes:
First published in Italian as "Storia dell'architettura del Rinascimento": Milan : Mondadori Electa SpA, 2011.Includes index.Translated from the Italian.
Contents:
The Quattrocento -- The Early Cinquecento -- Mannerism and the Counter-Reformation -- The Renaissance in Europe.
ISBN:
9783791345970
Dewey class:
724.12
Language:
EnglishItalian
Subject:
BRN:
206026
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