Compositio and the Materiality of Architecture in the Italian Renaissance

The sources which Renaissance architects used to develop their architectural compositions were not strictly architectural but were drawn from a wider visual field, and often involved heterogeneous material. This was so because the ancient models, imperfectly preserved as amputated fragments and oft...

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में प्रकाशित:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ashp,
मुख्य लेखक: Payne, Alina
स्वरूप: Article ou chapitre numérique
भाषा:Anglais
प्रकाशित: Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques 2009
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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सारांश:The sources which Renaissance architects used to develop their architectural compositions were not strictly architectural but were drawn from a wider visual field, and often involved heterogeneous material. This was so because the ancient models, imperfectly preserved as amputated fragments and often only apprehensible through a great effort of the imagination, needed to be fleshed out by other means: by architectural representations on ancient coins, plaquettes, sculptural reliefs, cameos e...