Drawing after architecture : Renaissance architectural drawings and their reception / Carolyn Yerkes.

Main entry:

Yerkes, Carolyn, author. aut

Title & Author:

Drawing after architecture : Renaissance architectural drawings and their reception / Carolyn Yerkes.

Edition:

Prima edizione.

Publication:

Vicenza : Centro internazionale di studi di architettura Andrea Palladio ; [Venice] : Marsilio, [2017].
©2017

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Premio James Ackerman per la storia dell'architettura ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-280) and index.
Introduction -- Ancients -- Tactics and techniques -- Paleography as topography -- Images and evidence -- Moderns -- Chronological condensation -- Representation as architecture -- Drawing as biography -- Conclusion.
Text in English; includes a preface in Italian.

Summary:

"Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers that question in a fresh investigation into the status of architectural drawing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing after Architecture: Renaissance Architectural Drawings and Their Reception investigates the status of architectural drawing after the invention of print and explores a vast group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscripts and collections of drawings that are each part of a larger network of copies. Made by French and Italian draftsmen who studied Roman monuments, the drawings contain information about the buildings buildings that include the most important ancient and modern works, the Pantheon and Saint Peter s that is not known from any other sources. But the information that the drawings preserve is only part of their value: the drawings also show how that information was recorded, transferred, and analysed by other draftsmen. In the sixteenth century, survey drawing was the key mechanism through which the material past was understood, and many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drawings after ancient architecture are extant. Ultimately, this book pursues the nature of architectural evidence, in that it asks how Renaissance architects used images to explore structures, to create biographies, and to write history."-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9788831726740 (paperback)
8831726749 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural drawing 16th century.
Architectural drawing 17th century.
Architectural drawing, Renaissance Italy.
Drawing, Renaissance Italy 16th century.
Architectural drawing, Renaissance.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Dessin d'architecture 16e siècle.
Dessin d'architecture 17e siècle.
Dessin d'architecture de la Renaissance Italie.
Dessin de la Renaissance Italie 16e siècle.
Dessin d'architecture de la Renaissance.
Architecture de la Renaissance.
Disegno architettonico Sec. 16.-17.
Architectural drawing.
Drawing, Renaissance.
Architektur
Architekturzeichnung
Rezeption
Rom Pantheon
Zeichnung
Italy.
Italien

Added entries:

Centro internazionale di studi di architettura "Andrea Palladio" di Vicenza, issuing body.
Premio James Ackerman per la storia dell'architettura ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299809
Call No.: BIB 245974
Status: Available

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