Reconstructing Francesco di Giorgio Architect (English and Italian Edition)

Hub & Pollali (ed.'s)

ISBN 10: 363157584X / ISBN 13: 9783631575840

Editore: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011

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Fine. Paperback. 2011. Originally published at $52.95.

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• Titolo: Reconstructing Francesco di Giorgio Architect (English and Italian Edition)
• Editore: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 363157584X
• ISBN 13: 9783631575840
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Used - Like New

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Riassunto

Francesco di Giorgio Martini is one of the few fifteenth century Sienese artists who became known outside his native city. Working at the courts of Urbino, Naples and Milan, he was a typical Renaissance uomo universale but his major achievements were in military and civil architecture, complemented by the composition of a theoretical treatise. The collection of essays does not offer a comprehensive study of the artist’s architectural œuvre, but rather emphasizes the partial nature of the scholarly endeavor so far undertaken. The essays discuss Francesco’s theory, his drawings from the antique, the individual characteristics of his practice, and the reception of his work. They share a common idea: invention, which emerges as a valid theoretical framework, possibly the only one capable of encompassing Francesco di Giorgio’s versatile accomplishments.

Informazioni sull?autore

Berthold Hub is assistant professor at the Department of Art History, University of Vienna (Austria).
Angeliki Pollali is professor of Art History at DEREE – The American College of Greece, Athens (Greece).