Distance points : essays in theory and Renaissance art and architecture / James S. Ackerman.

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Ackerman, James S.

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Distance points : essays in theory and Renaissance art and architecture / James S. Ackerman.

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Description:

xxvii, 561 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published in honor of the author's seventieth birthday.
"James S. Ackerman: selected bibliography": pages xxii-xxvii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Xenion : a bread and butter letter / Kathleen Weil-Garris and Richard Krautheimer -- James S. Ackerman : selected bibliography -- Historical and critical theory: Style -- Transactions in architectural design -- Interpretation, response : toward a theory of art criticism -- Art and science -- Alberti's light -- Leonardo's eye -- On early Renaissance color theory and practice -- Early Renaissance "naturalism" and scientific illustration -- Renaissance architecture: "Ars sine scientia nihil est" : Gothic theory of architecture at the cathedral of Milan -- The Certosa of Pavia and the Renaissance in Milan -- Sources of the Renaissance villa -- The Belvedere as a classical villa -- Architectural practice in the Italian Renaissance -- The Capitoline Hill -- The Gesù in the light of contemporary church design -- The geopolitics of Venetan architecture in the time of Titian -- The Tuscan/rustic order : a study in the metaphorical language of architecture.

Summary:

These essays by one of America's foremost historians of art and architecture range over theory and criticism, the search for connections between art and science in the Renaissance, and specific works of Renaissance architecture. The characterize the broad scope of James Ackerman's contribution as well as its depth in sixteenth-century studies.

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ISBN:

0262011220
9780262011228

Subject:

Art, Renaissance.
Art Philosophy.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Art de la Renaissance.
Art Philosophie.
Architecture de la Renaissance.
Beeldende kunsten.
Bouwkunst.
Renaissance.
Kunsttheorie.
Arte Renascentista.
Arquitetura Da Renascenca.
Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Visual arts

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Festschriften.

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Location: Library main 70020
Call No.: ID:91-B886
Status: Available

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