Interpreting the Renaissance

Princes, Cities, Architects

Manfredo Tafuri

520 pages, parution le 29/06/2006

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Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994) is acknowledged as one of Italy's most influential architectural historians. In his final work, Interpreting the Renaissance, published here in English for the first time (the Italian edition, Ricerca del Rinascimento, appeared in 1992), Tafuri analyzes Renaissance architecture from a variety of perspectives, exploring questions that occupied him for over thirty years.

What theoretical terms were used to describe the humanist analogy between architecture and language? Is it possible to identify the political motivations behind the period's new urban strategies? And how does humanism embody both an attachment to tradition and an urge to experiment?

Tafuri studies the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling readings of its various social, intellectual and cultural contexts, while providing a broad understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era. He synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centers of architectural innovation in Italy (Florence, Rome, and Venice), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century (Pope Nicholas V) to the early sixteenth century (Pope Leo X), and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo de' Medici, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, and Giulio Romano.

A magnum opus by one of Europe's finest scholars, Interpreting the Renaissance is an essential book for anyone interested in the architecture and culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.

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A Search for Paradigms: Project, Truth, Artifice
Gives Esse Non Licere: Nicholas V and Leon Battista Albert: Princes, Cities, Architects
Jugum Meum Suave Est: Architecture and Myth in the Era of Leo X
Roma Coda Mundi: The Sack of Rome: Rupture and Continuity
The Cranada of Charles V: Palace and Mausoleum
Venetian Epilogue: Jacopo Sansovino from Inventio to Consuetude
Appendix: Additional Documents
Notes
Index of Names

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Éditeur(s)	Yale University Press
Auteur(s)	Manfredo Tafuri
Parution	29/06/2006
Nb. de pages	520
Format	18,5 x 26,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1450g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780300111583
ISBN13	978-0-300-11158-3