Architectural Image and Early Modern Science - Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation

"The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation explores how architectural media came to propel scientific discourse between the eras of Dèurer and of Rubens.It is also the first English-language book to feature the polymathic, eccentric, and long-misunderstood artist Wendel Dietterlin"--

List of contents

Editorial note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the renaissance of architecture as art and science; 1. Architecture's figural turn; 2. Devising the Architectura: rationalism and empiricism in architectural design; 3. Drafting the Architectura: drawing as research in art, architecture, and science; 4. Printing the Architectura: architectural etching becomes alchemical inquiry; 5. Dissecting the Architectura: anatomy, ornament, and the limits of figuration; 6. Deconstructing the Architectura: enduring matter and transient forms in Peru; Conclusion: the death and the life of the architectural image; Selective bibliography; Index.

About the author

Elizabeth J. Petcu is a lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching examine the intersections of visual and scientific inquiry in the artistic and architectural cultures of the early modern world.

Summary

The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation explores how architectural media came to propel scientific discourse between the eras of Dürer and of Rubens.It is also the first English-language book to feature the polymathic, eccentric, and long-misunderstood artist Wendel Dietterlin.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth J. Petcu, Elizabeth J. (University of Edinburgh) Petcu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009422536
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942253-6
• No. of pages: 476
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, SCIENCE / History, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, HISTORY / Europe / Western, History of Science, History of Architecture, Western Europe, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Western Continental Europe