Icons of Renaissance Architecture (Icons Series) - Hardcover

Marckschies, Alexander; Markschies, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3791328417 ISBN 13: 9783791328416

Publisher: Prestel Pub, 2005

Synopsis

The Renaissance was aesthetically one of the most demanding and fascinating periods in the history of architecture. It developed out of Filippo Brunelleschi's Foundlings' Hospital in Florence and subsequently evolved into a pan-European phenomenon, the end of this period being marked by works by Carlo Maderno, Inigo Jones and Elias Holl. The style is based on rationality and clarity, the harmony of proportions and a balanced relationship between the individual and the whole. Influenced by Classical models, there was a growing awareness in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that something new could be created, something new that could be compared to the art of the ancient world.
As opposed to other works on Renaissance architecture, this publication does not focus solely on Italy with its buildings and urban areas in central and northern Italy and the palace architecture of Mantua and Urbino. The inclusion of the 'Italian architectural model' in the buildings of other European countries is also treated in depth. Readers can relish in a delightfully varied and often surprising panorama of Renaissance architecture reaching out from Italy to Germany, France, England, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Russia. This volume captures the rediscovery of harmony in architecture throughout Europe by focusing on the most impressive buildings and describing this development in exquisite photographs, numerous drawings and explanatory texts, placing the buildings in their appropriate architectural, cultural and historical setting. Interesting details about patrons, a building's specific requirements, its function and the impression it was intended to make are also discussed.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander Markschies lectures as professor at the Institute for Art History in Aachen, Germany.

Review:

"Combines superb color illustrations and intelligent commentary in an excellent introduction to the artist." -- Houston Chronicle, December 2004

"Copiously illustrated in color." -- Choice, April 2005

"Exceptionally fine color reproductions and a helpful appended Goya chronology." -- Library Journal, March 2005

"Generously illustrated slipcased albums of each artist’s life and work." -- Associated Press, November 2004

"Handsomely slipcased and beautifully illustrated... A wonderful addition to anyone’s library." -- Art Times, December 2004

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3791328417
• ISBN 13: 9783791328416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144