From signs to design : environmental process and reform in early Renaissance Rome

Author

Burroughs, Charles

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

ill.; 4 maps; 1 plan; bibliogr.; index ; xii, 344 p., [54] p. of pl. ; 1990

ISBN

0262022982

Publisher

MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Studies the dialectic of formal urban design and the incremental development of Rome during the pontificate of Nicholas V (1447-1455). Mounts a critique of the very notion of urbanism as a central categorical framework for discussion, and instead considers the interplay and connections of signs and codes within diverse topographical and metaphoric spaces. Concludes that Rome under Nicholas was not an arena of unilateral patronage and the coherent spatial and figural expression of ideological values. Rather, it was a setting for the play of signs and codes associated with different elements within the complex stratigraphy of the city, and of interventions that accented certain aspects of this complex situation, or gave it new directions.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Urbanism -- Italy
• Urbanism
• Italy
• 1400-1500
• Roma (ITA)
• Architecture
• Environment
• Nicholas V, pope, 1397-1455
• Signs (symbols)
• Topography
• Metaphor
• Space

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Urbanisme -- Italie
• Urbanisme
• Italie
• 1400-1500
• Roma (ITA)
• Architecture
• Environnement
• Nicolas V, pape, 1397-1455
• Signe
• Topographie
• Métaphore
• Espace

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00428203

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