Bearers of meaning : the classical orders in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

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For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,000 years from their first appearance in ancient...

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Author / Contributor: Onians, John, 1942- (Author)
Imprint: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1988]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture > Orders.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Architecture, Medieval.
Architecture, Ancient.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Table of Contents:
  • Classical Greece
  • The Hellenistic world and the Roman Republic
  • Vitruvius
  • The Roman Empire
  • Early Christianity
  • The column in the Christian Middle Ages
  • The orders in the Christian Middle Ages
  • The crisis of architecture : medieval and renaissance
  • The Tuscan Renaissance
  • Alberti
  • Filarete
  • Francesco di Giorgio Martini
  • Architects and theories in the later fifteenth century
  • A new Christian architecture
  • Francesco Colonna
  • Luca Pacioli
  • Bramante
  • Raphael
  • Serlio
  • Serlio's Venice : Sansovino, Aretino, Titian, and Vasari
  • Sixteenth-century choices.

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