1st Edition
The City Rehearsed Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries
By Christopher Heuer
Copyright 2009
312 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.
The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to... Read more
Introduction: Iconoclasm’s Faces Part 1: Performances of Order 1. Unbuilt Architecture in the World of Things 2. Antwerp: The City Rehearsed 3. Guidebooks to Chaos Part 2: Perspective and Exile 4. The Vanishing Self 5. Hidden Terrors: The Perspective (1604-5) Epilogue: Vredeman de Vries and the Modern
Biography
Christopher P. Heuer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
