Studies in Italian Renaissance architecture
By: Wolfgang Lotz ; editorial committee, James S. Ackerman, W. Chandler Kirwin, Henry A. Millon ; translators, Margaret Breitenbach, Renate Franciscono, Paul Lunde.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780262620369
Subjects: Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy.; Architecture -- Italy.
Description: The underlying themes of Lotz's work are the importance of architectural drawings for the study of Renaissance architecture; the problem of defining architectural currents in Italy during the second half of the sixteenth century; and the Renaissance approach to town planning. These concerns are embodied in six essays: The Rendering of the Interior in Architectural Drawings of the Renaissance; Notes on the Centralized Church of the Renaissance; Sixteenth-Century Italian Squares; The Piazza Ducale in Vigevano - A Princely Forum of the Late Fifteenth Century; The Roman Legacy in Sansovino's Venetian Buildings; Italian Architecture in the Later Sixteenth Century; and three shorts essays on Palladio.