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From Signs to Design - Environmental Process and Reform in Renaissance Rome (Paperback)
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From Signs to Design - Environmental Process and Reform in Renaissance Rome (Paperback)
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Burroughs brings an especially wide range of explanatory
models-from social history, cultural anthropology, iconology and
semiotics-to bear in his analysis of urban reform and the shifts in
architectural design that emerged in early Renaissance Rome.
Applying the latest practices from critical theory and discourse to
the built environment of early Renaissance Rome, Charles Burroughs
sees the city as a field of visual communication and rhetoric. He
explores the symbolic dimension of the cultural landscape and the
operation of architectural and other visual signs in the urban
environment. The result is a profound reconceiving of the
implications for the study of Renaissance Rome of the notion of the
city as "text." Central to Burrough's project is the articulation
of a model of cultural mediation and production that is distinct
from the standard notion of patronage as a unilateral transaction.
On one level From Signs to Design focuses on the production of
social meaning in and through environmental process during the
pontificate of Nicholas V, celebrated for his intimate links to the
new culture of humanism and as an archetypal patron of the arts and
literature. On another, it is an elucidation of the origins and the
ideological impact of architectural and urbanistic motifs and
conceptions of spatial order that were central to the Western
tradition of monumental city planning. Burroughs brings an
especially wide range of explanatory models-from social history,
cultural anthropology, iconology and semiotics-to bear in his
analysis of urban reform and the shifts in architectural design
that emerged in early Renaissance Rome. He focuses in particular on
the material basis and context of these shifts, which he studies
through the examination of contrasting neighborhoods, social
milieus, and institutions, as well as of individuals prominently
involved with important building projects or with the general
maintenance and improvement of urban facilities and infrastructure.
Burroughs provides a concrete and differentiated picture of the
intersection of papal/ecclesiastical and local interest and
initiatives, placing this within the context of marked political
changes. And he devotes extensive discussions to the artistic
expression of papal agendas and concerns in Nicholas's private
chapel and in Alberti's Tempio Malatestiano. Contents Urban Pattern
and Symbolic Landscapes * Interior Architectures: Discordance and
Resolution in the Frescoes of Nicholas's Private Chapel * Far and
Near Perspectives: Urban Ordering and Neighborhood Change in
Nicholan Rome * Middlemen: Lines of Contact, Mutual Advantage, and
Command * The Other Rome: Sacrality and Ideology in the Holy
Quarter * Mirror and Frame: The Surrounding Region and the Long
Road * Epilogue: The River, the Book, and the Basilica
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