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Siena : Constructing The Renaissance City
The Architecture Of The Italian Renaissance

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Christoph Luitpold Frommel ; translated from the German by Peter SpringPublication Details
BookThames & Hudson2007Description
Generously illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, plans, and reconstructions, it brings into vivid relief the extraordinary flowering of architectural genius between the birth of Brunelleschi and the death of Michelangelo, a turning point in Western culture whose riches and pleasures prove themselves yet again to be literally inexhaustible. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA1115 .F757 2007 AVAILABLE
Palladio’s Venice : Architecture And Society In A Renaissance Republic

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Tracy E. CooperPublication Details
BookYale University Press2005Links
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Celebrated Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508?1580) devoted much of his career to the city of Venice. Famous for public buildings he had designed in his native Vicenza and country villas he had built for wealthy patricians there, he arrived in Venice in the mid- 1550s confident of establishing a successful new practice. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA1123.P2 C66 2005 AVAILABLE
Icons Of Renaissance Architecture

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Alexander MarkschiesPublication Details
BookPrestel2003Description
Following the rise of renaissance architecture from its birthplace in Italy, this volume explores not only the dazzling structures of that country, but also the expansion of renaissance style throughout the continent. This volume follows the development of country-specific features in the renaissance styles throughout Europe to illustrate how each culture integrated its unique history with renaissance principles. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA510 .M37 2003 AVAILABLE
Roman House–Renaissance Palaces : Inventing Antiquity In Fifteenth-century Italy

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Georgia ClarkePublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2003Links
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Georgia Clarke examines the fifteenth-century patrons’ fascination with ancient texts and the physical remains of ancient Italy in this analysis of historical texts, architects’ drawings and palace buildings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA7514.6 .C58 2003 AVAILABLE
The Architectural Treatise In The Italian Renaissance : Architectural Invention, Ornament, And Literary Culture

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Alina A. PaynePublication Details
BookCambridge University Press1999Description
Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA2515 .P39 1999 AVAILABLE
The Perfect House : A Journey With The Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

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Witold RybczynskiPublication Details
BookScribner2002Description
His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and Inigo Jones, profoundly influencing the design of Monticello, the tidewater plantation houses of Virginia, and the White House. Embracing the elements of Rybczynski’s most successful books on domestic architecture, Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World, this charming, revelatory meditation explores the dawn of domestic architecture and provides a new way of looking at every building we inhabit or visit today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA1123.P2 R93 2002 AVAILABLE
On Alberti And The Art Of Building

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Robert TavernorPublication Details
BookYale University Press1998Description
Widely recognized in his own time for extraordinary architectural achievements, Leon Battista Alberti continues to influence his field more than 500 years later. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA1123.A5 T38 1998 AVAILABLE
Andrea Palladio : The Architect In His Time

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Bruce Boucher ; principal photography by Paolo MartonPublication Details
BookRev. and updatedAbbeville Press1998Description
Bruce Boucher suggests that Andrea Palladio might “fit comfortably into a suitcase or a backpack for a trip to Vicenza,” the city west of Venice where the 16th-century architect Palladio lived and where most of his villas stand. For art historians and architects, Boucher effectively synthesizes the more than 30 years of research that has been accomplished since James Ackerman’s seminal 1966 work on Palladio. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA1123.P2 B68 1998 AVAILABLE
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