Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture /
The importance of place-as a unique spatial identity-has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the 'genius loci', or spirit of place, evoked not only the location of a distinct atmosphere or environment, but also the protection of this location, and implicitly, its making...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ;
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| ISBN: | 9789048550814 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Embracing Specificity, Embracing Place
- 1. Architecture on Paper : The Development and Function of Architectural Drawings in the Renaissance
- Part I. Marking Place
- 2. The Santacroce Houses along the Via in Publicolis in Rome: Law, Place and Residential Architecture in the Early Modern Period
- 3. Towards a New Architecture of Cosmic Experience
- 4. Architecture for Music : Sonorous Spaces in Sacred Buildings in Renaissance and Baroque Rome
- Part II. Teaching Place
- 5. The Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala and the Construction of Siena
- 6. Places of Knowledge between Ulm and the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century : The Kunstkammer of Johannes Faulhaber
- 7. Nicola Zabaglia's Scaffoldings for the Maintenance of Architectural Space in St. Peter's Basilica and throughout Europe in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
- Part III. Excavating Place
- 8. Building on 'Hollow Land' : Skill and Expertise in Foundation-Laying Practices in the Low Countries in the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
- 9. The 'Conquest' and Construction of an Urban Place : The Insula dei Gesuiti in Venice in the Early Modern Period
- 10. Exploring the Book of Fortresses
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects and Places