Renaissance and Baroque Architecture

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Unprecedented in its in-depth coverage, and with over 500 illustrations, photographs, and architectural drawings the multi-volume Companion to the History of Architecture offers an indispensable resource on architectural thought and practice ranging from the 15th century to the present day. AUTHORITATIVE: Brings together an international team of over one hundred eminent historians, academics and practising architects  USER-FRIENDLY: Accessibly structured into volumes organized both chronologically and thematically, spanning the architecture of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods, through to the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries  INCLUSIVE: Spans a broad and global range of issues, from the impact of war and religion on city architecture; its relationship with the public; and architecture and the sciences; to examples such as materials and Tectonic expression; Beaux-arts and the Gothic; and contemporary issues, such as contemporary architecture’s critical review of its cultural production, ecology, technological saturation, and ontological engagement with a world now largely urbanized   CUTTING-EDGE: Reviews the most recent developments in the field, including theory and practice from the past ten years, along with likely future developments in the history of architecture MULTI-FORMAT: Publishing simultaneously in print and online, providing an unparalleled reference work for students and scholars alike  Frontmatter Cover Contents List of Illustrations Contributors to Volume I Introduction: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Part I The Building Blocks Architecture and its Culture 1 When Did the Renaissance in Architecture Begin?: From Panofskian Mythography to Vasarian History 2 Vitruvius and the Architectural Treatise in Early Modern Europe 3 Architecture And Antique Sculpture In Early Modern Rome 4 What Drawings Did In Renaissance Italy 5 Materiality, Ornament, and Media Overlaps: Architecture Between Art and Building Science 6 Theater And Architecture: Toward A Material History Of Renaissance Theater 7 Architecture and the Sciences 8 Vaults and Domes: Statics as an Art City, War, and Religion 9 The Birth of the Modern City 10 The City At War and The Semantic Armament of Renaissance Architecture 11 Taking Place: Architecture and Religious Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy 12 Jesuit Architecture Worldwide: A Culture of Corporate Invention Part II Global Geographies and European Internationalism France, the Low Countries, and Britain 13 Medici Queens as Patrons in France 14 Classicism and Church Architecture in Early Seventeenth-Century France: Aspects and Debates 15 Religious Architecture and the Image in the Southern Netherlands after the Beeldenstorm: Shrines for Miracle-Working Statues of the Virgin Mary 16 British Classicism to 1700 and the Search for a National Architectural Style 17 Understanding Roman Architecture From A Distance: Sir Christopher Wren on the Temples of Peace and of Mars the Avenger Iberia, Spanish Italy, the Ottomans, and Latin America 18 Al-andalus and Castile: Art and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula 19 The Spanish Kingdom of Southern Italy: Architecture in Naples, Lecce, L'aquila 20 Architectural Dialogues Across the Eastern Mediterranean: Monumental Domed Sanctuaries in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy 21 The Classical Ideal in Portugal and the Portuguese World: From Lisbon to China 22 Baroque Spain: Architecture and Urbanism For a Universal Monarchy 23 The Architecture of the Early Modern Period “Because Vitruvius did not Recommend Square Columns”: Europe, Latin America and the Globalization of the Renaissance The German Lands and Bohemia 24 Northern Imaginative Antiquarianism: The Dismembered Column as Relic and Tool 25 The Reception and Flowering of Classicism in the German Lands 26 Crossbreeding Cultures: Italian and Local, Elite and Popular. Building in Bohemia, 1490-1720