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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Niall Atkinson (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.451kg ISBN: 9780271071190ISBN 10: 0271071192 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 09 August 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Journey into the Noisy Renaissance Chapter 1: The Acoustic Art of City-Building Chapter 2: Florentine Soundscapes Chapter 3: Sound, Space, and Meaning in Renaissance Florence Chapter 4: Suoni, Voci, Rumori: Listening to the City Chapter 5: Sonic Discord, Urban Disorder Epilogue: Ephemerality, Durability, and Architectural History Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsRenaissance Florence is a place and time that has received massive attention from scholars, although none appear to have asked, What did the city sound like and how did noise shape the urban environment? In this highly original book, Niall Atkinson builds a compelling and beautifully written argument that puts sound firmly back into the urban sensorium and recovers not only the instances and ways in which the city and its life were marked by sound but also the social interactions that were crucially mediated through the soundscape. Fabrizio Nevola, author of Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City Gracefully written and superbly designed, this landmark study of Florentine soundscapes reveals how listening and hearing influenced everything from life on the street to the ways that citizens understood and experienced the passing of time itself. Niall Atkinson does not simply move the history of Renaissance Florence onto new ground with The Noisy Renaissance--he reorients our thinking about how lives were lived in all late medieval and early modern European cities. --Nicholas Eckstein, author of Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence A brilliant exploration of the dialogue between buildings and bodies. Exploiting the power of new digital tools to visualize the Florentine soundscape, Atkinson shows how sound from the acoustic regime of bell ringing to the cacophony of the street brought the Renaissance city into being. In this original and imaginative book, the stones of Florence not only come alive but are made to speak. Sharon Strocchia, Emory University Author InformationNiall Atkinson is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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