1st Edition
Early Modern Spaces in Motion Design, Experience and Rhetoric
Edited By Kimberley Skelton
Copyright 2021
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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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, rather than segmented, movement. New spaces that included vistas along house interiors and... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Bodies and Buildings in Motion, Navigating the Palace Underworld: Recreational Space, Pleasure, and Release at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Passages to Fantasy: The Performance of Motion in Cellini's Fontainebleau Portal and the Galerie Francois I, The Catholic Country House in Early Modern England: Motion, Piety and Hospitality, c.1580-1640, Sensory Vibration and Social Reform at San Michele a Ripa in Rome, The Rise of the Staircase, Movement Through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque, A Paper Tour of the Metropolis: The Architecture of Early Modern London in the Royal Magazine, Libraries in Motion: Forms of Movement in the Early Modern Library (1450-1770), Works Cited, Index
Biography
Kimberley Skelton is an independent scholar and has held research and teaching posts in the UK and the US. Her research explores intersections of architectural, intellectual, and cultural history, especially involving notions of sensory perception. She has recently published The Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth-Century England.
