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Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects
Manfredo Tafuri Yale University Press in association with Harvard University Graduate School of Design |
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And now we have the translation of his last book, in which all of the ambitions, hopes, and commitments of Tafuri's hermeneutics are brought to bear on the foundational moment of modern Western culture: the inquiry into the Renaissance, the research of the Renaissance, the interpretation of the Renaissance as research. Rafael Moneo sees Interpreting the Renaissance as the "horizon on which Tafuri's work as a historian and theorist achieves its fullest significance, because in this we can observe the fulfillment of that purpose which lay behind all of his works: to explain, through his writings, what architecture is, and what it has been in the past."
Contents
Foreword by K. Michael Hays
Translator's Preface
Preface
List of Abbreviations
I A Search for Paradigms: Project, Truth, Artifice
II Cives Esse Non Licere: Nicholas V and Leon Battista Alberti
III Princes, Cities, Architects
IV Jugum Meum Suave Est: Architecture and Myth in the Era of Leo X
V Roma Coda Mundi: The Sack of Rome: Rupture and Continuity
VI The Granada of Charles V: Palace and Mausoleum
VII Venetian Epilogue: Jacopo Sansovino from Inventio to Consuetudo
Appendix: Additional Documents
Notes
Index of Names
Publication Title:
Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects
Year Published:
2006, Yale University Press in association
with Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Author:
Manfredo Tafuri
Format:
408 pages, hardcover
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