1st Edition
The Built Surface: v. 1: Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002: Since antiquity through to the present, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated but interrelated - the one informing the other, and establishing patterns of creation and reception. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed this relationship... Read more
1: Architecture and painting: the biological connection; 2: Playing with boundaries: painted architecture in Roman interiors; 3: Geography, cartography and the architecture of power in the mosaics of the Great Mosque of Damascus 1; 4: in VISIBLE: picturing interiority in western Himalayan st?pa architecture; 5: The representation of Maya architecture 1; 6: Abbot Suger and the Temple in Jerusalem: a new interpretation of the sacred environment in the royal abbey of Saint-Denis 1; 7: Falling through the cracks: the fate of painted palace façades in sixteenth-century Italy; 8: Verbal and visual abstraction: the role of pictorial techniques of representation in Renaissance architectural theory; 9: Architecture and the narrative dimension of two Alberti frontispieces of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; 10: Pieter de Hooch’s revisions of the Amsterdam Town Hall; 11: Andrea Pozzo’s Prospettiva de pittori e architetti: architecture as a system of representations; 12: Romanticism’s Piranesi; 13: ‘The baseless fabric of a vision’: civic architecture and pictorial representation at Sir John Soane’s Museum; 14: History and the image: from the Lyons School to Paul Delaroche
Biography
Christy Anderson, Karen Koehler
