Building the Italian Renaissance

Building the Italian Renaissance
Author: Paula Kay Lazrus
Publsiher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781469653402

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Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age. This dome would be the largest ever built. This is foremost a technical challenge but it is also a philosophical one. The project takes place at an important time for Florence. The city is transitioning from a High Medieval world view into the new dynamics and ideas and will lead to the full flowering of what we know as the Renaissance. Thus the competition at the heart of this game plays out against the background of new ideas about citizenship, aesthetics, history (and its application to the present), and new technology. The central challenge is to expose players to complex and multifaceted situations and to individuals that animated life in Florence in the early 1400s. Humanism as a guiding philosophy is taking root and scholars are looking for ways to link the mercantile city to the glories of Rome and to the wisdom of the ancients across many fields. The aesthetics of the classical world (buildings, plastic arts and intellectual pursuits) inspired wonder, perhaps even envy, but the new approaches to the past by scholars such as Petrarch suggested that perhaps the creative classes are not simply crafts people, but men of ideas. Three teams compete for the honor to construct the dome, a project overseen by the Arte Della Lana (wool workers guild) and judged by them and a group of Florentine citizens who are merchants, aristocrats, learned men, and laborers. Their goal is to make the case for the building to live up to the ideals of Florence. The game gives students a chance to enter into the world of Florence in the early 1400s to develop an understanding of the challenges and complexity of such a major artistic and technical undertaking while providing an opportunity to grasp the interdisciplinary nature of major public works.

Building the Italian Renaissance

Building the Italian Renaissance
Author: Paula Kay Lazrus
Publsiher: University of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture, Italian
ISBN: 1469653397

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This book is a reacting game, an interactive role-playing game in which students are responsible for their own learning. This game focuses on the competition to complete the final phase of construction on the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence in 1418.

A Renaissance Architecture of Power

A Renaissance Architecture of Power
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004315501

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Urbino, Rome, Florence, Milan, Ferrara... but also Mantua and Imola, Carpi and Saluzzo, Naples and Sicily: a collection of case studies on the Renaissance renewal of Italian court palaces from a comparative perspective.

The Building of Renaissance Florence

The Building of Renaissance Florence
Author: Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1982-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0801829771

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Patrons - The Guilds - Strozzi family - Succhielli family.

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1987-07-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780226080499

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"There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on an Italian vacation—not only for its information and vision but for such pleasant reminders as that the citizens of Treviso carried Tullio Lombardo's friezes through the town in triumph before they were attached to a building."—D. J. R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review

Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance

Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance
Author: David Karmon
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781108808477

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This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with the built environment. His book draws upon the close study of literary and visual sources to prove that early modern audiences paid sustained attention to the multisensory experience of the buildings and cities in which they lived. Through reconstructing the Renaissance understanding of the senses, we can better gauge how constant interaction with the built environment shaped daily practices and contributed to new forms of understanding. Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance offers a stimulating new approach to the study of Renaissance architecture and urbanism as a kind of 'experiential trigger' that shaped ways of both thinking and being in the world.

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Christoph Luitpold Frommel
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0500342202

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Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and 35 key architects. Examines social context, religious beliefs, political power-structures, technical innovation, aesthetic judgement . Includes over 300 photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions. Sure to be the recognized textbook for the foreseeable future.

Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0674008685

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The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary text. Ayala Amir examines Carver's use of the eye-of-the-camera technique. Amir uncovers the tensions that structure his visual aesthetics and examines assumptions that govern scholarly discussions of his work, relating these matters to the complex nature of photography and to the current "visual turn"of cultural studies. The research uses visual approaches to reflect upon traditional issues of narrative study-duration, dialogue, narration, description, frame, character, and meaning. Amir shows how Carver's visual aesthetics shapes the meaning of his stories, while also challenging accepted notions of the boundaries of "the literary."