Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture

Zusatztext 'Borys's study offers an important new insight into Scamozzi's work and thus provides us with a richer and more nuanced understanding of the often-too-generic idea of the Palladian style - an approach which was widespread in seventeenth-century Italian and northern European architecture. Historical geographers concerned with landscape! place! and architecture will find much to value in Borys's volume.' Journal of Historical Geography Informationen zum Autor Ann Marie Borys is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington! USA. Klappentext Ann Marie Borys presents northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) as a traveler and an observer! the first Western architect to respond to the changing shape of the world in the Age of Discovery. Pointing out his familiarity with the expansion of knowledge in both natural history and geography. Zusammenfassung Ann Marie Borys presents northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) as a traveler and an observer, the first Western architect to respond to the changing shape of the world in the Age of Discovery. Pointing out his familiarity with the expansion of knowledge in both natural history and geography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface: chorography! place! and time; 'Citizen of the world'; Geography and chorography: Scamozzi's theory of place; Mapping the natural world: casa and villa; Mapping the city: palaces and civic buildings; Chorography and cosmography: place and transcendence; 'A scientific habit'; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Marie Borys, Annmarie Borys, Borys Ann Marie
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781409455806
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-5580-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity; Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Italy, History of Architecture, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Individual architects and architectural firms