Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy - Hardcover

MacDonald, Professor William L.; Pinto, John A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300053819 ISBN 13: 9780300053814

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art. The inspiration for major developments in villa and landscape design from the Renaissance onward, it also influenced such eminent twentieth-century architects as Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. In this beautiful book, two distinguished architectural historians describe and interpret the Villa as it existed in Roman times and track its extraordinary effect on architects and artists up to the present day.
William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto begin by evaluating the numerous buildings composing the complex, and then describe the art, decorated surfaces, gardens, waterworks, and life at the Villa. The authors then turn to the ways the Villa influenced writers, artists, architects, and landscape designers from the fifteenth century to the present. They discuss, for example, Piranesi's archaeological, architectural, and graphic Villa studies in the eighteenth century; connections between Hadrian's Villa and the English landscape garden; the array of European verbal and artistic depictions of the Villa; and architectural studies of the Villa by twentieth-century Americans.

About this title

About the Author:

William L. MacDonald is a former A. P. Brown Professor of the History of Art at Smith College.

From Library Journal:

This 1975 title collects McBride's art writings from the New York Sun, the Dial, and Art News. The text is buttressed with more than 30 illustrations of works under discussion and a new introduction. Essential for art collections.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0300053819
• ISBN 13: 9780300053814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 508