Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius / / edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; 27
• TeilnehmendeR: Bell, Sinclair W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (775 pages)

As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.

Table of Contents

Preface: Vitruvius, Unwitting Hero of Our Times --   Paolo Clini -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction --   Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell -- Part 1: Transmission -- 1 Vitruvius from Manuscript to Print --   Ingrid Rowland -- Part 2: Translation -- 2 Raphael and Fabio Calvo --   Francesco P. Di Teodoro -- 3 On the Vitruvius of Cesare Cesariano --   Alessandro Rovetta and Jessica Gritti -- 4 Who Was Vitruvius? a Renaissance Debate --   Paul Davies and David Hemsoll -- 5 The Medieval Vitruvius --   Wim Verbaal -- 6 Alberti and Vitruvius: Reception and Rejection of the Model in De re aedificatoria --   Martin McLaughlin -- 7 Verona and Vitruvius --   Paul Davies and David Hemsoll -- 8 Vitruvius in Bramante's Rome: Recovery, Interpretation, and Use of the Ancient Text --   Ann C. Huppert -- 9 Vitruvius' Educational Program in Antiquity and the Renaissance --   Daniel E. Harris-McCoy -- 10 Sangallo, Tolomei, and the Program of the Accademia de lo Studio de l'Architettura on Vitruvius and Ancient Architecture --   Bernd Kulawik -- 11 Vitruvius and Guarino Guarini --   Susan Klaiber -- 12 Hermosura and Belleza in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Editions of Vitruvius --   Victor Deupi -- 13 Making Vitruvius Speak English: Vitruvius and English Architecture up to Vitruvius Britannicus --   Vaughan Hart -- 14 Vitruvius in the German-Speaking World --   Werner Oechslin -- Part 4: Practice -- 15 Archaeological Perspectives on Vitruvius --   Rabun Taylor -- 16 Vitruvius and Ancient Construction Method --   Lynne C. Lancaster -- 17 How the opus francigenum Became the "Gothic" Style --   Michel Paoli -- 18 Vitruvius and the Early Modern Worksite --   David Karmon -- 19 Vitruvius and the Sangallos --   Francesco Marcorin -- 20 Vitruvius and Palladio --   Francesco Marcorin -- 21 Vitruvius and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns --   Thomas Noble Howe -- Part 5: Vitruvian Topics -- 22 Echeia --   Robert Godman -- 23 Scamilli Impares --   Thomas Noble Howe -- 24 Vitruvius' Science of Machines: Tradition or Innovation? --   Giovanni Di Pasquale -- 25 Vitruvius' Historiae and the Love of Learning --   Antonio Becchi -- 26 The Invention of the Vitruvian Man: Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci, and Beyond --   Francesca Fiorani -- Index.