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Renaissance Architecture
Christy Anderson
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Description for Renaissance Architecture
Paperback. A completely new approach to the history of Renaissance architecture, encompassing the entire continent and dealing with the work of well-known architects such as Michelangelo and Andrea Palladio alongside lesser known though no less innovative designers such as Juan Guas in Portugal and Benedikt Ried in Prague and Eastern Europe. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 272 pages, 140 colour halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; ACND; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 170 x 240 x 15. Weight in Grams: 656.
The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings that emerged during these seminal centuries of European history. Although marked by the rise of powerful individuals, both patrons and architects, the Renaissance was equally a time of growing group identities and communities - and architecture provided the public face to these new identities . Religious reforms in northern Europe, spurred on by Martin Luther, rejected traditional church function and decoration, and ... Read more
The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings that emerged during these seminal centuries of European history. Although marked by the rise of powerful individuals, both patrons and architects, the Renaissance was equally a time of growing group identities and communities - and architecture provided the public face to these new identities . Religious reforms in northern Europe, spurred on by Martin Luther, rejected traditional church function and decoration, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Oxford History of Art
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192842275
SKU
V9780192842275
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About Christy Anderson
Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of Renaissance and Baroque Europe. She has taught at Yale University, the Courtauld Institute, MIT, and currently the University of Toronto. As a Kress Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art and later as a Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, she studied the annotations made by ... Read more
Reviews for Renaissance Architecture
Review from previous edition Presents a refreshingly lively and thoughtful approach to Renaissance architecture. It is stimulating and original throughout.
Professor Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge
Professor Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge