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Author Fane-Saunders, Peter, author.

Title Pliny the Elder and the emergence of Renaissance architecture / Peter Fane-Saunders.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography 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.
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.
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.
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Language English.
Subject Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
Pliny, the Elder -- Influence.
Pliny, the Elder.
Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder)
Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Sources.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Italy.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: 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)
1139942247 (electronic book)
9781316421390 (electronic book)
1316421392 (electronic book)
1316421163 (e-book)
9781316421161 (e-book)
9781316420935
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9781107079861
1107079861
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1316420248 (e-book)
9781316420249 (e-book)
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