Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-174) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Mixing Media in Late Sixteenth-Century Florentine Architectural Design / Victoria Addona. The Authorial Dimension of Paper, in Early Modern Architects' Modani / Jonathan Foote -- Into the Fold: Drawings on the Move from the Sangallo Archive / Dario Donetti -- Spolia, Imitatio and Detail Drawings in the Circle of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger / Cara Rachele -- The Use of Architectural Paper Models in Medici Florence / Giovanni Santucci -- Mixing Media in Late Sixteenth-Century Florentine Architectural Design / Victoria Addona.
Summary:
Against the scholarly tendency to treat architectural disegno in highly intellectualized terms, the essays collected in this volume offer a new perspective on this early modern practice, by reinserting it into the messy Lebenswelten of the architectural workshop and the building site. The introduction of paper is one of the major innovations of Early Modern architecture, and it had profound effects on its design processes. Wider use of paper changed representational conventions, while communication networks were affected by the many implications of portability and reproducibility: circulation of models for study and design increased, and new possibilities of remote control of the building site emerged. The material dimensions of these practices are the subject of the present volume, which collects essays that engage with the manifold inter- and multi-medial complexities of Italian Renaissance architectural drawings on paper.
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