City Rehearsed - Object, Architecture, Print in Worlds of Hans Vredeman De Vries

Offers a fresh perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. This book probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theater, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography. It is suitable for historians of art and the built environment.

List of contents

Introduction: Iconoclasm’s Faces Part 1: Performances of Order 1. Unbuilt Architecture in the World of Things 2. Antwerp: The City Rehearsed 3. Guidebooks to Chaos Part 2: Perspective and Exile 4. The Vanishing Self 5. Hidden Terrors: The Perspective (1604-5) Epilogue: Vredeman de Vries and the Modern

About the author

Christopher P. Heuer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.

Summary

The City Rehearsed offers a new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It focuses on the active role his prints played in the life of urban readers outside of a narrowly-defined "Flemish" architectural history. This is a study with clear interest for historians of art and the built environment.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Heuer, Christopher (Princeton University Heuer, Christopher P. Heuer, Heuer Christoph, Heuer Christopher
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2008
• EAN: 9780415433068
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43306-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture; The Classical Tradition in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, The environment, History of Architecture, Theory of architecture, Civil engineering, surveying and building