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Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and
invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as
the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the
pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary
spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the
Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in
the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for
the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice.
Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding
of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in
the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past
and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified
over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for
granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our
understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and
perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to
contemporary practice.
Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and
invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as
the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the
pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary
spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the
Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in
the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for
the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice.
Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding
of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in
the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past
and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified
over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for
granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our
understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and
perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to
contemporary practice.
For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban
realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were
played out, the place where society said the most substantial
things about who they were and what they longed for. In this
masterful blend of art and cultural history, architect David
Mayernik reveals how the very different cities of Venice, Rome,
Florence, Siena, and Pienza were all literally designed to be both
models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader
on a journey into the past in Timeless Cities, but he also explains
why these city-building ideas remain relevant today. For those
traveling on vacation or appreciating the art and architecture of
Italy from home, Mayernik helps bring the wonder and beauty of the
Renaissance mind a little closer.
Architect and engraver Paul Letarouilly dedicated more than 30
years of his life to creating the most complete collection of
plans, elevations, and details of the buildings and monuments of
Renaissance Rome. This student's edition of his achievement
features highlights from five massive volumes, originally published
between 1825 and 1882. Its systematic overview illustrates the
principles of design behind the works of Michelangelo, Sangallo,
Peruzzi, Vignola, Bramante, Bernini, Fontana, dalla Porta, Maderno,
Borromini, and other great builders of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
Letarouilly's engravings, which illustrate the translation of the
principles behind classical architecture into the new age of the
Renaissance, served as a major source of inspiration from the
moment of their publication, and they remain standard references to
this day. This edition includes informative text by classical
architect and scholar John Barrington Bayley that offers insights
into the architecture of Rome's palaces, villas, and squares as
well as St. Peter's and the Vatican. Ideal for students of
classical, Renaissance, and Roman architecture, this affordable
volume also constitutes a useful guide for visitors to Rome.
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