"Vitruvius is to architects as Hippocrates is to medical doctors. Yet the Roman author of De architectura, the only work on architecture to have survived from classical antiquity, and father as such of the architectural profession has not always received academic attention commensurate with his standing among architects. The publication of Brill’s companion to the reception of Vitruvius is a significant corrective and much-anticipated cause for celebration. [...] anyone interested in learning about Vitruvius, or any scholar seeking a single volume of essays by reputable authorities on an impressive range of Vitruvian topics would be wrong not to begin with this unique collection." - Indra Kagis McEwen, in: <i>BMCR</i>, 2024.11.22

As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.
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This collection of 26 original essays by an international team of leading scholars investigates the influence and reception of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day.
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Preface: Vitruvius, Unwitting Hero of Our Times  Paolo Clini Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell Part 1: Transmission 1 Vitruvius from Manuscript to Print  Ingrid Rowland Part 2: Translation 2 Raphael and Fabio Calvo  Francesco P. Di Teodoro 3 On the Vitruvius of Cesare Cesariano  Alessandro Rovetta and Jessica Gritti 4 Who Was Vitruvius? a Renaissance Debate  Paul Davies and David Hemsoll 5 The Medieval Vitruvius  Wim Verbaal 6 Alberti and Vitruvius: Reception and Rejection of the Model in De re aedificatoria  Martin McLaughlin 7 Verona and Vitruvius  Paul Davies and David Hemsoll 8 Vitruvius in Bramante’s Rome: Recovery, Interpretation, and Use of the Ancient Text  Ann C. Huppert 9 Vitruvius’ Educational Program in Antiquity and the Renaissance  Daniel E. Harris-McCoy 10 Sangallo, Tolomei, and the Program of the Accademia de lo Studio de l’Architettura on Vitruvius and Ancient Architecture  Bernd Kulawik 11 Vitruvius and Guarino Guarini  Susan Klaiber 12 Hermosura and Belleza in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Editions of Vitruvius  Victor Deupi 13 Making Vitruvius Speak English: Vitruvius and English Architecture up to Vitruvius Britannicus  Vaughan Hart 14 Vitruvius in the German-Speaking World  Werner Oechslin Part 4: Practice 15 Archaeological Perspectives on Vitruvius  Rabun Taylor 16 Vitruvius and Ancient Construction Method  Lynne C. Lancaster 17 How the opus francigenum Became the “Gothic” Style  Michel Paoli 18 Vitruvius and the Early Modern Worksite  David Karmon 19 Vitruvius and the Sangallos  Francesco Marcorin 20 Vitruvius and Palladio  Francesco Marcorin 21 Vitruvius and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns  Thomas Noble Howe Part 5: Vitruvian Topics 22 Echeia  Robert Godman 23 Scamilli Impares  Thomas Noble Howe 24 Vitruvius’ Science of Machines: Tradition or Innovation?  Giovanni Di Pasquale 25 Vitruvius’ Historiae and the Love of Learning  Antonio Becchi 26 The Invention of the Vitruvian Man: Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci, and Beyond  Francesca Fiorani Index
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Product details

ISBN
9789004270671
Published
2024
Publisher
Brill; Brill
Weight
1408 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
748

Biographical note

Ingrid D. Rowland lives in Rome, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely, including a translation of Vitruvius (Cambridge 1999; with Thomas Howe). She won the inaugural Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021.

Sinclair W. Bell lives in Chicago. He is the editor of several volumes concerned with the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Italy, and previously served as Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.


Contributors are: Antonio Becchi, Paul Davies, Victor Deupi, Francesca Fiorani, Rob Godman, Jessica Gritti, Daniel Harris-McCoy, Vaughan Hart, David Hemsoll, David Karmon, omas Noble Howe, Ann C. Huppert, Susan Klaiber, Bernd Kulawik, Lynne Lancaster, Francesco Marcorin, Martin McLaughlin, Werner Oechslin, Michel Paoli, Giovanni Di Pasquale, Alessandro Rovetta, Rabun Taylor, Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro, Wim Verbaal.