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Hart, Vaughan; Hicks, Peter; Palladio, Andrea

 
9780300151473: Palladio's Rome: A Translation of Andrea Palladio's Two Guidebooks to Rome
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300151470 ISBN 13 : 9780300151473
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome's ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth, marriage, and death. Here translated into English and joined in a single volume for the first time, Palladio's guidebooks allow modern visitors to enjoy Rome exactly as their predecessors did 450 years ago. Like the originals, this new edition is pocket sized and therefore easily read on site. Enhanced with illustrations and commentary, the book also includes the first full English translation of Raphael's famous letter to Pope Leo X on the monuments of ancient Rome. For architectural historians, tourists, and armchair travellers, this book offers fresh and surprising insights into the antiquarian and ecclesiastical preoccupations of one of the greatest of the Renaissance architectural masters.

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À propos de l'auteur

Vaughan Hart is professor of architecture, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath. He is author of the award-winning 'Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders', published by Yale University Press. Peter Hicks is visiting research fellow, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, and historian, Fondation Napoleon, Paris. Hart and Hicks are the coeditors of 'Paper Palaces: The Rise of the Renaissance Architectural Treatise', and they are cotranslators of 'Sebastiano Serlio: On Architecture, Volumes 1 and 2', all published by Yale University Press.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300151470
ISBN 13 
9780300151473
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
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Personne responsable
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