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Reformations - From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the new West of religious contention and colonial expansion (Paperback)
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Reformations - From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the new West of religious contention and colonial expansion (Paperback)
Series: Architecture in Context
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Unprecedented in scope, this fifth volume in the Architecture in
Context series traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the
emergence of the great artists and architects of late 15th- and
early 16th-century Italy that led to the cultural peak
characterized as the High Renaissance. It begins with a definition
of Mannerism, the seminal development from the High Renaissance and
the Baroque, associated with such dominant and influential figures
as Raphael, Michelangelo, Vignola, Romano and Palladio. The
political context within which Mannerism and its variants developed
- from the Reformation to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War -
is outlined before the major figures and achievements of Italian
architecture in the period are explored in great depth and breadth.
The journey then moves to France and architects and thinkers such
as Pierre Lescot, Philibert de l'Orme, J.A. du Cerceau and Salomon
de Brosse. These two major traditions - with the intercession of
architects from the Netherlands who had ideas of their own - had a
huge impact in central Europe, the ideas spreading across a vast
area including modern-day Germany, Austria and Poland. After a
digression to the notably eclectic England of Elizabeth I and James
I, where pioneers such as Robert Smythson were overshadowed by the
towering figure of Inigo Jones, Reformations ends with a survey of
architecture in the Iberian peninsula and the colonies of Spain and
Portugal, where the powerful influence of the Italian masters met a
strong vernacular tradition. Profusely illustrated and with many
specially drawn plans, this is a wide-ranging and detailed guide to
the architecture of a period that continues to fascinate and engage
us today.
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