Main entry:

Villalpando, Juan Bautista.

Title & Author:

Juan Bautista Villalpando's Ezechielem explanationes : a sixteenth-century architectural text / a facing page Latin-English translation of book five, with commentary by Tessa Morrison ; with a preface by Michael J. Ostwald.

Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009.

Description:

v, 612 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-607) and index.
Preface / by Michael J. Ostwald i -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Background to the reconstruction -- Villalpando's visual comprehension, the engravings and the nature of his architectural drawings -- Overview of the text of Ezechielem explanationes -- The divine architect and the universal church as a building -- Sources and influences -- Support and criticism -- Legacy -- Conclusion -- Translation -- The first debate : the architecture of the temple -- what class of architecture should be proposed and in what order -- The columns of bronze that constitute the model for the other columns -- Of the parts of the columns : general considerations about their width and their thickness -- For the columns : the narrowest part, the additions and the grooves -- The grooves and the thickest part of the columns -- On general considerations of the capitals -- Of the triple floors of the atrium and of the vestibule of the temple -- The House of the Forest of the Lebanon : its name and its purpose -- The symmetry of the House of the Forest of the Lebanon : a general considerations of the orders of its columns and its entablatures -- The number of entablatures and of columns : their measurements, disposition and decorations -- Vitruvius took from the House of Solomon all the norms for the construction of the Basilicas -- The exterior elevation of the house, the interior elevation of the sacred and its vault -- The height of the oracle and its vault -- The second and the third floors of the House of the Lord : also the measurements and proportions of every one of the floors -- A detailed study of the number of entablatures : but first a study of the Architrave -- The symmetry and decorations of the frieze the triglyph and the metopas -- The admirable distribution of the triglyph -- Consideration of all the sacred architecture : distribution of the triglyph in the remaining floors -- The net and the pomegranates that marvellously embellished the cornice -- The pomegranates : their distribution and number -- The form, the measurement and the decorations of the capitals of the Corinthian style, also we will consider a very ancient double capital -- The bases of the columns : the multiple proportions of the decorations of the temple -- The second debate : the wonders of the temple, the theory of Eupolemus about the temple -- The architect of the temple and the work of the prefect -- The number of workers, the responsible for the work and its function -- General considerations on the proportion of the construction of the temple, of the tabernacle, of this world, of the human body and of the Church of Christ -- Description of the camp of Israel that surrounds the tabernacle, the number of soldiers and the emblems of its leaders -- The Temple of Jerusalem and the universe they were represented through this camp and the tabernacle -- The complete disposition of the temple was taken from the symmetries of the human body -- The meaning of the reed that divides and distributes all the building -- Christ the Lord is represented by the measure of the complete building of the temple -- Christ is the stone that the builders rejected and that came to be the head of the corner -- The meaning of some parts of the building and of the decorations.

ISBN:

9780773448063
0773448063

Subject:

Villalpando, Juan Bautista Criticism and interpretation.
Villalpando, Juan Bautista.
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Temple de Jérusalem (Jérusalem)
Buildings.
Jerusalem Buildings, structures, etc.
Middle East Jerusalem.
Tempel Jerusalem

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Morrison, Tessa, 1954-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265695
Call No.: BIB 197159
Status: Available