Bearers of Meaning : : The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance / / John Onians.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Onians, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

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 Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the orders--the columns and capitals known as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite--were made to serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I Classical Greece -- II The Hellenistic world and the Roman Republic -- III Vitruvius -- IV The Roman Empire -- V Early Christianity -- VI The column in the Christian Middle Ages -- VII The orders in the Christian Middle Ages -- VIII The crisis of architecture: Medieval and Renaissance -- IX The Tuscan Renaissance -- X Alberti -- XI Filarete -- XII Francesco di Giorgio Martini -- XIII Architects and theories in the later fifteenth century -- XIV A new Christian architecture -- XV Francesco Colonna -- XVI Luca Pacioli -- XVII Bramante -- XVIII Raphael -- XIX Serlio -- XX Serlio's Venice: Sansovino, Aretino, Titian, and Vasari -- XXI Sixteenth-century choices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index