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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Editorial Note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Pliny the Elder and His Place in Antique and Mediaeval Writings on Architecture; Plates ; Part I Pliny the Elder and Antiquarian Studies of the Roman Ruins ; Chapter Two Initial Explorations: Petrarch, the Mirabilia urbis Romae, and Flavio Biondo; Chapter Three The Manuscript Hunter and the Librarian: Poggio Bracciolini and Giovanni Tortelli; Chapter Four A New System: Pomponio Leto and His School; Chapter Five Emerging Doubts. |
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Part II Pliny the Elder and Architectural Writings Chapter Six Pliny and Leon Battista Alberti: Two "Architectural Histories"; Chapter Seven Pliny, Filarete, and the Ideal Patron of Architecture; Chapter Eight "Aldus and His Dream Book": The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; Chapter Nine A More Down-to-Earth Pliny; Chapter Ten Mixing the Traditions: The Curious Case of Cesare Cesariano; Chapter Eleven Developments in the Veneto: The Vitruvian Commentaries of Daniele Barbaro and I quattro libri by Andrea Palladio; Part III Pliny the Elder, Architectural Drawings, and Built Monuments. |
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Chapter Twelve Standing before the Marvels: Ciriaco d'Ancona and Pliny's opera mirabilia in terrisChapter Thirteen In the Mind's Eye: Drawings of Plinian Wonders, from Leonardo to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; Chapter Fourteen From Paper to Stone: Rebuilding Pliny's Architectural Marvels; Final Thoughts: Pliny's Influence on the Renaissance Understanding of Ancient Architecture; Appendix I Editions of the Naturalis historia Printed in Italy during the Fifteenth Century ; Appendix II Editions of De Architectura Printed In Italy During The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries ; Notes. |
Summary |
This book is the first to demonstrate the extent of Pliny's contribution to Italian Renaissance architecture. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
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Pliny, the Elder -- Influence.
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Pliny, the Elder. |
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Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) |
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Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Sources.
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Architecture, Renaissance. |
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Italy. |
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Sources.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Fane-Saunders, Peter. Pliny the Elder and the emergence of Renaissance architecture. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107079861 1107079861 (DLC) 2015040728 (OCoLC)929331849 |
ISBN |
9781139942249 (electronic book) |
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1139942247 (electronic book) |
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9781316421390 (electronic book) |
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1316421392 (electronic book) |
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1316421163 (e-book) |
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9781316421161 (e-book) |
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9781316420935 |
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1316420930 |
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9781107079861 |
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1107079861 |
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1316420019 |
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1316420248 (e-book) |
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9781316420249 (e-book) |
Standard No. |
40026274817 |
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