The Architecture of the Renaissance (In Two Volumes)

Benevolo, Leonardo

ISBN 10: 0710080360 / ISBN 13: 9780710080363

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London

About this Item

[0-7100-8036-0] 1978, 1st English translation. (Cloth) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 1077pp. Minor wear to jacket edges. Previous owners name small and neat to inside cover, hidden by flap. Profusely illustrated, plans. Based on the revised second Italian edition of 1973.

Seller Inventory # 114268

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Architecture of the Renaissance (In Two Volumes)
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
• ISBN 10: 0710080360
• ISBN 13: 9780710080363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art and Architecture

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Synopsis

This extensively illustrated study opens with an account of the movement's founders: Brunelleschi, arbiter of Florence's building problems, and Alberti, who supplied the new architecture with a suitable theoretical foundation. The editor considers the general effect of the new artistic culture on the changes that took place first in fifteenth-century Italian cities and then throughout Europe.
The relationship between the development of architecture and that of other related fields, especially the great advances in painting and sculpture, receives special attention. Also considered are the effects of the beginnings of modern science and the general economic and social changes of the age. Finally this study takes the reader to the point where the history of modern architecture, discussed in volumes of the same name by Professor Benevolo, begins.

About the Author

Leonardo Benevolo has held positions as Professor of the History of Architecture at the universities of Florence, Venice and Palermo, and visiting professorships at the universities of Yale, Columbia, Caracas, Tehran, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. His many books include "The Origins of Modern Urbanism" (10th edition 1989), "An Introduction to Architecture" (14th edition 1990), "The History of Architecture and the Renaissance" (7th edition 1988) and "The History of the Oriental City" (2nd edition 1989).