Form And Fortification: The Art Of Military Architecture In Renaissance Italy Morgan Ng Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts

A Revelatory Exploration Of Crucial Renaissance Art Form—Military Architecture—And Its Unexpected Connections With Contemporary Aesthetic Cultural And Technological Innovations Urban Fortifications Were The Most Colossal Artistic Achievements Italian Celebrated Sculptors Painters Architects Such As Michelangelo Bramante Leonardo Francesco Paciotto Antonio Da Sangallo Younger Collaborated Humanists Military Commanders To Design Citadels Ramparts Unprecedented In Their Geometric Sophistication Constructional Ambition Physical Grandeur These Monuments Profoundly Transformed Shape Experience Built Environment Form Fortification Challenges Long-Held Assumption That Architecture Was Merely An Instrument Warfare Restoring Practice Central Place At Nexus Sixteenth-Century Creative Endeavors Through Rich Array Drawings Archival Manuscripts Early Printed Sources Treatises Realized Works This Book Traces Remarkable Exchanges Between Other Arenas Engineering Charting Cross-Disciplinary Convergences Morgan Ng Develops Novel Concept “Cognate Technologies” Describe Civil Structures Coevolved Came Share Striking Formal Affinities Defensive Earthworks Bore Same Shapes Terraced Gardens Subterranean Artillery Chambers Resembled Artificial Grottoes Hydraulic Tunnels Fortified Passageways Morphed Into Palatial Galleries Relationships Among Cognate Technologies Contends Are Essential For Understanding Interconnected Nature Modern Invention Σελίδες: 256 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0615 Διαστάσεις: 21 6X21 6Cm