The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance
architectural invention, ornament, and literary culture
by Alina Alexandra Payne
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Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism. Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central issue around which much of this debate focused.
Ornament, she argues, facilitated a dialogue across disciplines and invited exchanges with literary and rhetorical practices. Payne's study also highlights the place of the architectural treatise in the text-based culture of the period and of architectural discourse in Renaissance thought.
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The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance: architectural invention, ornament, and literary culture
1999, Cambridge University Press
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0521622662 9780521622660
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-328) and index.
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