Renaissance Architecture: Critics, Patrons, Luxury

David Thomson

Manchester University Press, 1993 - Architecture - 240 pages

In this illustrated history of the architecture of Renaissance Europe, David Thomson demonstrates how Renaissance architecture attracted much contemporary criticism for its excessive display of personal wealth and status.

Contents

• Chambord the double spiral staircase: 46
• Luxury architecture in fiction and philosophy: 51
• 48: 92
• Renaissance architectures and peoples: 97
• Roman grotesque mural decoration: 99
• nations?: 106
• Reconstruction of a basilica described by Vitruvious: 108
• Plate illustrating the adjustments in scale required: 114
• Philibert De lOrme French Ionic Order the Tuileries Palace Paris: 138
• Andrea Palladio Palazzo Thiene Vicenza Elevations Woodcuts from I Quattro Libri DellArchitettura Venice 1570: 140
• Andrea Palladio The Villas Trissino and Repeta Plans and elevations Woodcuts from I Quattro Libri DellArchitettura Venice 1570 Libro Secondo pp ...: 141
• Andrea Palladio Unadopted design for the Doges Palace Venice Drawing Chatsworth Devonshire Collection: 142
• Roads from Rome: 143
• 222: 144
• Chambord Engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau 1576: 145
• Granada The Emperor Charles Vs palace: 146
• Nonsuch Surrey seen from the northwest Painting Flemish school early seventeeth century Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge: 148
• Paris The Louvre Engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau 1576: 149
• Paris The Louvre West wing courtyard facade: 150
• The Escorial: 151
• Exceptions to the pluralist argument: 152
• 99: 153
• Brussels The Palais Granvelle plan Engraving from PierreJacques Gotghebuer 1827: 154
• Brussels The Palais Granvelle Elevation of the courtyard arcades Engraving from PierreJacques Gotghebuer 1827: 157
• London Royal Exchange view of the courtyard: 158
• Venice Palazzo Loredan now VendraminCalergi: 162
• Venice Ca Dario: 164
• 108: 165
• Ferrara House of Ludovico Ariosto: 166
• Bologna Palazzo Bocchi: 167
• Venice Palazzo Gritti: 169
• 112: 171
• Initial to Psalm XV from the Cuernden Psalter Pierpont Morgan Library New York: 172
• Van Rymerswaele A Merchant Banker or TaxCollector and his Wife Prado Madrid: 173
• Gemäldegalerie Dresden: 174
• Lucca Family towers From a fourteenthcentury manuscript in the Archivio Capitolare Lucca: 176
• Bologna The Asinelli and Garisenda towers: 177
• Venice The Loggetta: 181
• Jacques Androuet du Cerceau Coach for King Charles IX: 183
• Verona SantAnastasia Monument to Gian Fregoso: 185
• Venice SS Giovanni e Paolo Monument to Doge Pietro Mocenigo: 186
• Venice Frari Monument to Doge Nicolo Tron: 187
• Stamford Lincolnshire St Martins Monument to William Cecil Lord Burghley: 189
• Hillesden Buckinghamshire Monument to Alexander Denton: 190
• Turvey Bedfordshire Monument to the 1st Lord Mordaunt: 192
• Hereford Cathedral Monument to Alexander Denton and his wife Anne Willison: 193
• Quo vadis? 158: 196
• Chenonceau IndreetLoire: 197
• Tintoretto Adoration of the Shepherds Scuola Grande di: 201
• Jacopo Bassano Adoration of the Kings National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh: 203
• Notes: 205
• Walter Ryffs edition of Vitruvius The Vitruvius Teutsch: 207
• Sebastiano Serlio Manuscript for the true Book VI: 214
• Amadis de Gaule: 223

Bibliographic information

• Title: Renaissance Architecture: Critics, Patrons, Luxury
• Author: David Thomson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0719039630, 9780719039638
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / General; Architecture / History / Renaissance