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The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Book

Here is the definitive introduction to one of the great epochs in the history of architecture. Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580, and the 35 key architects who designed them, it gives equal weight to social context, technical innovation and aesthetic judgement. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, plans reconstructions, it brings into vivid relief the extraordinary flowering of architectural genius between the birth of Brunelleschi and the death of Michelangelo, a turning point in Western culture whose riches and whose pleasures prove themselves yet again to be literally inexhaustible.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and 35 key architects, this title examines social context, religious beliefs, political power-structures, technical innovation, aesthetic judgement. It includes over 300 photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions. This is sure to be the recognized textbook for the foreseeable future.

  • Blackwell

    Avoiding the straitjacket of fashionable theory, the book is organized traditionally by period and architect. Social context, technical innovation and aesthetic judgement are all given due weight, with particular emphasis on the way in which each...

  • Pickabook

    Christopher Luitpold Frommel

  • 0500342202
  • 9780500342206
  • Christoph Luitpold Frommel
  • 19 March 2007
  • Thames & Hudson
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 384
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