Early Modern Spaces in Motion : : Design, Experience and Rhetoric / / ed. by Kimberley Skelton.
Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, r...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Bodies and Buildings in Motion
- 1. Navigating the Palace Underworld : Recreational Space, Pleasure, and Release at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent
- 2. Passages to Fantasy : The Performance of Motion in Cellini’s Fontainebleau Portal and the Galerie François I
- 3. The Catholic Country House in Early Modern England : Motion, Piety and Hospitality, c. 1580–1640
- 4. Sensory Vibrations and Social Reform at San Michele a Ripa in Rome
- 5. The Rise of the Staircase : Motion in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Domestic Architecture
- 6. Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque
- 7. A Paper Tour of the Metropolis : The Architecture of Early Modern London in the Royal Magazine
- 8. Libraries in Motion: Forms of Movement in the Early Modern Library (1450-1770)
- Works Cited
- Index