The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise "blueprints" with simple tools such as the compass and straightedge, Gothic draftsmen were able to develop a linearized architecture of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. Examination of their surviving drawings can provide valuable and remarkably intimate information about the Gothic design process. Gothic drawings include compass pricks, uninked construction lines, and other telltale traces of the draftsman's geometrically based working method. The proportions of the drawings, moreover, are those actually intended by the designer, uncompromised by errors introduced in the construction process. All of these features make these drawings ideal subjects for the study of Gothic design practice, but their geometry has to date received little systematic attention. This book offers a new perspective on Gothic architectural creativity. It shows, in a series of rigorous geometrical case studies, how Gothic design evolved over time, in two senses: in the hours of the draftsman's labor, and across the centuries of the late Middle Ages. In each case study, a series of computer graphics show in unprecedented detail how a medieval designer could have developed his architectural concept step by step, using only basic geometrical operations. Taken together, these analyses demonstrate both remarkable methodological continuity across the Gothic era, and the progressive development of new and sophisticated permutations on venerable design themes. This rich tradition ultimately gave way in the Renaissance not because of any inherent problem with Gothic architecture, but because the visual language of Classicism appealed more directly to the pretensions of Humanist princes than the more abstract geometrical order of Gothic design, as the book's final chapter demonstrates.
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Robert Bork is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Iowa, USA.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2011 Ashgate large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: The book examines Gothic architectural creativity and evolution through detailed geometrical case studies and computer graphics, highlighting methodological continuity and progressive design development. It concludes that the Gothic tradition was eventually superseded by Renaissance Classicism due to the shifting aesthetic preferences of Humanist princes. You can read the full concluding paragraph in the referenced source. Contents: Introduction: Geometry and the Gothic Design Process Explaining the Roots of the Gothic Aesthetic Methodological Problems in the Study of Gothic Geometry Konrad Hecht's problematic critique of geometrical research A New Approach to the Geometry of Gothic Drawings The Origins of Gothic Architectural Drawing Villard de Honnecourt The Reims Palimpsest The Flowering of Rayonnant Drawing in the Rhineland Strasbourg Cologne Freiburg Italian Drawings up to 1350 Orvieto Siena Germanic Tower Drawings and the Elaboration of Tradition Prague Vienna Ulm Regensburg Frankfurt Strasbourg Wider Horizons Two Germanic Tabernacles Building Groundplans Augsburg Steyr The Cloisters Drawing Clermont-Ferrand Leuven The Italian Challenge to the Gothic Design System The Design Debates at Milan Cathedral The Emergence of Classical Architecture in the Italian Renaissance Hermann Vischer and the Hybridization of Tradition How Renaissance Design Won the Communication War Conclusion: Gothic Drawings as Traces of the Creative Process. Codice articolo GK-3CCU-D6KA
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