[Book review]

Author

Anderson, Christy

Document type

Compte rendu de livre

Language

English

Source

Renaissance quarterly. 1994, Num. 4, Vol. 47, 999-1000

ISSN

0034-4338

Abstract (en)

Through an analysis of the writings of Alberti, Chrysoloras, Bruni and others, Smith draws connections between literary and philosophical traditions in order to explain the significance of architecture as a topos 1400-1470. Architectural theory in the form of treatises is not the focus here, although they do appear tangentially as comparative materials. Nor is this book a contextual study of architecture, even in terms of intellectual history. Smith addresses instead architectural ekphrases as representative of the interests of both humanists and those whose profession - or passion - was architecture itself.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture
• Architecture
• 1400-1500
• Humanism
• Ekphrasis
• Architectural theory

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture
• Architecture
• 1400-1500
• Humanisme
• Ekphrasis
• Théorie de l'architecture

Review of

19951001-00321929

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19951001-00321930

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