Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence - Rilegato

Trachtenberg, Marvin

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0521555027 ISBN 13: 9780521555029

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Riassunto

Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art and Power in Early Modern Florence radically revises our ideas about the origins of rationally planned public space in the European city. Through a spatial and historical analysis of the major squares of Florence, all built in the Trecento, together with primary civic monuments, Marvin Trachtenberg shows that, contrary to current belief, Florentine planners engaged in a theoretically sophisticated mode of practice. In these squares, geometrically structured perspectival views of the principal monuments were established long before Alberti and other Renaissance theorists may have promoted such planning. Trachtenberg demonstrates that this urbanistic scenography, deeply informed by medieval optical science, was closely allied with perspectival developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, forming a unified visual culture that was highly attentive to the eye of the spectator. An analysis of the critical role of the piazza in the Florentine sociopolitical field reveals how the art of the piazza was part of state practice as a work of art. Including more than 50 new drawings and 200 illustrations, Dominion of the Eye challenges many of the cardinal truisms in the art history of the Renaissance, offering a new model for understanding the art of Italy in the early modern era.

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Recensione:

"...essential for anyone specializing in any of the visual arts, including architecture and urbanism." Choice

"This deeply revisionary study of urbanism, art, and power in early modern Florence is without question one of the most important works of architectural history to appear in many decades....Trachtenberg's exciting, highly suggestive synthesis forces us to see in new ways the profound tranformation of one of the great cities in modern Europe...." Virginia Quarterly

"engaging, forcefully written, and highly polemical book...this elegantly argued, relentlessly single-minded, and extravagantly speculative book rewards the reader with a keen appreciation of the many dialectical nuances informing trecento Florrentine urban planning." Speculum

Descrizione del libro:

Trachtenberg radically revises our ideas about the origins of rationally planned public space in the European city. The turn occurred not in the Renaissance but in Trecento Florence, which endowed its monuments with perspectival views (the piazza), in a development allied with other media and part of state practice as a work of art.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521555027
• ISBN 13: 9780521555029
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384