Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome
Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama
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- Author: Yvonne Elet, Vassar College, New York
- Date Published: January 2018
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107130524
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Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. The creation of this important, unfinished complex provides a remarkable case study for the nature of architectural invention. Drawing on little known poetry describing the villa while it was on the drawing board, as well as ground plans, letters, and antiquities once installed there, Yvonne Elet reveals the design process to have been a dynamic, collaborative effort involving humanists as well as architects. She explores design as a self-reflexive process, and the dialectic of text and architectural form, illuminating the relation of word and image in Renaissance architectural practice. Her revisionist account of architectural design as a process engaging different systems of knowledge, visual and verbal, has important implications for the relation of architecture and language, meaning in architecture, and the translation of idea into form.
Read more- Considers Renaissance architectural design in a broad social and cultural context, showing how the dialectical practice of invention in this cultural matrix engaged architectural design in larger, self-reflexive discourses about the relative powers of word and image to envision new things, and the poietic processes of making them
- Works across traditional disciplinary boundaries of art and architectural history and literary studies, allowing a new and holistic perspective on Raphael's work, and a rare portrait of intellectual culture and creative processes in Leonine Rome
- Provides a new critical edition and facing-page translation by Nicoletta Marcelli of Francesco Sperulo's long neo-Latin poem describing the Medici villa, with a gloss by the author, enabling this important poem to find a different place in art- and architectural-historical studies, opening up a new Renaissance genre of literature as a tool of architectural design
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'… what this book does splendidly is focus our attention on the roles of people other than patrons and architects - the advisers, many unnamed - in the production of architecture. In addition, it makes a fundamental contribution by asserting that the poetry associated with villas deserves to be considered as a key part of the process of those villas' designs.' Paul Davies, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
See more reviews'This substantial, original book makes significant contributions to our understanding of the architectural design process in early modern Rome … [Elet] moves effortlessly across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deftly interweaving different modes of analysis and a profound familiarity with myriad sources, primary and secondary … The book's production value matches the quality of its concept and writing, with many well-chosen illustrations that evoke both the villa and the ideas in circulation around it quite nicely.' Jessica Maier, Renaissance Quarterly
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- Date Published: January 2018
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107130524
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 261 x 184 x 32 mm
- weight: 1.3kg
- contains: 98 b/w illus. 19 colour illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Note on translations and abbreviations
Introduction. The nature of invention, in word and image
1. Reviving the corpse
2. Writing architecture
3. Sperulo's vision
4. Encomia of the unbuilt
5. Metastructures of word and image
6. Dynamic design
Conclusion. Building with mortar and verse
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
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