| Description |
xiv, 175 pages |
| Contents |
1. Aeolian winds and the spirit of Renaissance architecture : Academic Eolia revisited / Barbara Kenda -- 2. Chasma ges : Delphic pneuma and the cult of Asklepios / Richard M. Economakis -- 3. "Study the warm winds and the cold" : Hippocrates and the Renaissance villa / Matthew Hardy -- 4. The role of the winds in architectural theory from Vitruvius to Scamozzi / Alessandro Nova -- 5. Making visible the invisible : signs of air in architectural treatises / Paul Emmons and Marco Frascari -- 6. Poetry and "spirited" ancient sculpture in Renaissance Rome : Pomponio Leto's Academy to the sixteenth-century sculpture garden / Kathleen Wren Christian -- 7. The winds in the corners : Giulio Romano, the elements and the Palazzo Te's Fall of the giants / David Mayernik -- 8. The breath of cities / Rebecca Williamson |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Winds and architecture -- Italy.
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Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy.
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Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Italy.
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Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Kenda, Barbara.
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| LC no. |
2006001181 |
| ISBN |
0415398037 hb alkaline paper |
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0415398045 pb alkaline paper |
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