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In Building Codes, Catharine Randall contends that all Calvinist architecture recalls a scriptural intertext and seeks to build upon the firm foundations of the Gospel. These architects, instructed to erect monuments glorifying Catholic patrons, inscribe the tension between their confessional perspective and their commission upon their structures.
Randall explores the ways in which buildings such as Chambord, Chenonceau, the Luxembourg Palace, and the Louvre bear encoded criticisms of religious and political authority.
By examining the lives of several famous architects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, along with blueprints, engravings, actual structures, garden layouts, builders' manuals, and illustrated allegories, this study excavates the Calvinist faith of these architects and demonstrates the dramatic effects their embattled religious perspective had on the structures they built.
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Building codes: the aesthetics of Calvinism in early modern Europe
1999, University of Pennsylvania Press
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0812234901 9780812234909
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-280) and index.
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