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OverviewVilla Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. The creation of this important, unfinished complex provides a remarkable case study for the nature of architectural invention. Drawing on little known poetry describing the villa while it was on the drawing board, as well as ground plans, letters, and antiquities once installed there, Yvonne Elet reveals the design process to have been a dynamic, collaborative effort involving humanists as well as architects. She explores design as a self-reflexive process, and the dialectic of text and architectural form, illuminating the relation of word and image in Renaissance architectural practice. Her revisionist account of architectural design as a process engaging different systems of knowledge, visual and verbal, has important implications for the relation of architecture and language, meaning in architecture, and the translation of idea into form. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yvonne Elet (Vassar College, New York)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 18.40cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 26.10cm Weight: 1.300kg ISBN: 9781107130524ISBN 10: 1107130522 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 11 January 2018 Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews'... what this book does splendidly is focus our attention on the roles of people other than patrons and architects - the advisers, many unnamed - in the production of architecture. In addition, it makes a fundamental contribution by asserting that the poetry associated with villas deserves to be considered as a key part of the process of those villas' designs.' Paul Davies, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 'This substantial, original book makes significant contributions to our understanding of the architectural design process in early modern Rome ... Elet paints an evocative, holistic picture of the complex genesis of this most complex villa. To that end, she moves effortlessly across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deftly interweaving different modes of analysis and a profound familiarity with myriad sources, primary and secondary.' Jessica Maier, Renaissance Quarterly '... what this book does splendidly is focus our attention on the roles of people other than patrons and architects - the advisers, many unnamed - in the production of architecture. In addition, it makes a fundamental contribution by asserting that the poetry associated with villas deserves to be considered as a key part of the process of those villas' designs.' Paul Davies, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 'This substantial, original book makes significant contributions to our understanding of the architectural design process in early modern Rome ... Elet paints an evocative, holistic picture of the complex genesis of this most complex villa. To that end, she moves effortlessly across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deftly interweaving different modes of analysis and a profound familiarity with myriad sources, primary and secondary.' Jessica Maier, Renaissance Quarterly Author InformationYvonne Elet is Associate Professor of Art History at Vassar College, New York. A specialist in Italian early modern art and architecture, her research focuses on Renaissance villa culture; integrated designs for art, architecture, and landscape; early modern stucco; and intersections among art, literature, science, and natural philosophy. Her articles appear in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance. She has received grants from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, the Getty Research Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has also been a Fellow at the Metropolitan Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Frick Collection, New York, as well as a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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