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Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy
Contributor(s): Temple, Nicholas (Author)
ISBN: 1138195286     ISBN-13: 9781138195288
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $171.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Criticism
Dewey: 720.104
LCCN: 2019044312
Series: Routledge Research in Architectural History
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.10 lbs) 280 pages
 
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This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time - among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths - on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/philological studies, religious sermons and grammaticae, the book traces key periods when the emerging field of linguistics in early modern Italy impacted on the theory, design and symbolism of buildings.