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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katherine Wheeler , Professor Richard WoodfieldPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.589kg ISBN: 9781472418821ISBN 10: 1472418824 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 09 May 2014 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; The sins of the Renaissance: John Ruskin and the rise of the professional architect; Embracing decadence: Walter Pater’s and John Addington Symonds’s Renaissance; ‘It is time to be rational’: William J. Anderson’s The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy; The Renaissance as an English style: J. Alfred Gotch, Reginald Blomfield, and the English Renaissance; Experiencing the Renaissance: Geoffrey Scott’s The Architecture of Humanism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'In Katherine Wheeler's account of how Renaissance architecture was taken up in both theory and practice by the Victorians, the tightly interlaced relationship between transformations in architectural training, ideology, and identity and the problem of style comes to the fore with fresh clarity and concentrated focus.' The Victorian '[Her] purpose she has achieved admirably, and in more depth than I have been able to indicate in this short review. It is remarkable, really, and yet another tribute to the power of Ruskin's rhetoric, that Renaissance architecture should have needed a new spokesperson who could explain this development thoroughly and lucidly. But it did, and it has found one here.' Victorian Web 'Renaissance heroes and masterpieces are often accepted wholesale as if their study and celebration has nothing to do with the period in which they are revered. Because of this, books that deal with the historiography of the Renaissance are always welcome additions to the field. Katherine Wheeler's Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture is no exception.' Journal of Art Historiography Author InformationKatherine Wheeler is Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Miami, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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