Title: Variety, archeology, & ornament : renaissance architectural prints from column to cornice /
Authors: Waters, Michael J.; Brothers, Cammy, 1969-; University of Virginia.
Publisher: University of Virginia Art Museum,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Prints, Renaissance Exhibitions.; Decoration and ornament, Architectural Exhibitions.; Decoration and ornament, Renaissance Exhibitions.; Architecture, Renaissance Exhibitions.; Illustrated books History Exhibitions.; Architecture, Renaissance.; Decoration and ornament, Architectural; Decoration and ornament, Renaissance.; Illustrated books; Prints, Renaissance
Abstract: "The works that form the core of the exhibition, a set of twenty-three architectural prints by the so-called 'Master G.A. with the Caltrop', disrupt the typical narrative of Renaissance architecture in both their medium and content. As single-leaf prints of architectural details, they demonstrate the existence of an architectural print culture beyond treatise illustrations or views of Rome (vedute)....As representations of highly ornamental capitals, bases, and cornices, they indicate a lively interest in non-canonical, non-Vitruvian details that survived well into the sixteenth century."--Introduction, p. 7.
Contents: Foreword / Bruce Boucher -- Introduction / Cammy Brothers -- Looking beyond the treatise : single-leaf prints and sixteenth-century architectural culture / Michael J. Waters -- Catalogue. Origins ; Antiquity ; Variety ; Order ; Afterlife.