Juan Bautista Villalpando's Ezechielem explanationes
Subtitle: a sixteenth-century architectural text
By: a facing page Latin-English translation of book five, with commentary by Tessa Morrison ; with a preface by Michael J. Ostwald.
Contributors: Morrison, Tessa.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773448063
Subjects: Villalpando, Juan Bautista -- Criticism and interpretation; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem); Jerusalem -- Buildings, structures, etc
Work titles: Ezechielem explanationes. Book 5.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / by Professor Michael J. Ostwald i; title: Introduction; title: Background to the reconstruction; title: Villalpando's visual comprehension, the engravings and the nature of his architectural drawings; title: Overview of the text of Ezechielem explanationes; title: The divine architect and the universal church as a building; title: Sources and influences; title: Support and criticism; title: Legacy; title: Translation; title: The first debate : the architecture of the temple; title: What class of architecture should be proposed and in what order; title: The columns of bronze that constitute the model for the other columns; title: Of the parts of the columns : general considerations about their width and their thickness; title: For the columns : the narrowest part, the additions and the grooves; title: The grooves and the thickest part of the columns; title: On general considerations of the capitals; title: Of the triple floors of the atrium and of the vestibule of the temple; title: The House of the Forest of the Lebanon : its name and its purpose; title: The symmetry of the House of the Forest of the Lebanon : a general considerations of the orders of its columns and its entablatures; title: The number of entablatures and of columns : their measurements, disposition and decorations; title: Vitruvius took from the House of Solomon all the norms for the construction of the Basilicas; title: The exterior elevation of the house, the interior elevation of the sacred and its vault; title: The height of the oracle and its vault; title: The second and the third floors of the House of the Lord : also the measurements and proportions of every one of the floors; title: A detailed study of the number of entablatures : but first a study of the Architrave; title: The symmetry and decorations of the Frieze the Triglyph and the Metopas; title: The admirable distribution of the Triglyph; title: Consideration of all the sacred architecture : distribution of the Triglyph in the remaining floors; title: The net and the pomegranates that marvellously embellished the cornice; title: The pomegranates : their distribution and number; title: The form, the measurement and the decorations of the; title: Capitals of the Corinthian style, also we will consider a very ancient double capital; title: The bases of the columns : the multiple proportions of the decorations of the temple; title: The second debate : the wonders of the temple; title: The theory of Eupolemus about the temple; title: The architect of the temple and the work of the prefect; title: The number of workers, the responsible for the work and its function; title: General considerations on the proportion of the; title: Construction of the temple, of the tabernacle, of this world of the human body, and of the Church of Christ; title: Description of the camp of Israel that surrounds the tabernacle, the number of soldiers and the emblems of its leaders; title: The Temple of Jerusalem and the universe they were; title: Represented through this camp and the tabernacle; title: The complete disposition of the temple was taken from the symmetries of the human body; title: The meaning of the reed that divides and distributes all the building; title: Christ the Lord is represented by the measure of the complete building of the temple; title: Christ is the stone that the builders rejected and that came to be the head of the corner; title: The meaning of some parts of the building and of the decorations.