Becoming an architect in Renaissance Italy
Subtitle: art, science and the career of Baldassarre Peruzzi
By: Ann C. Huppert
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780300203950
Subjects: Architectural practice; History; Criticism and interpretation; Architectural design
Description: "A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly critical assessment by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), have long cast Peruzzi's career in shadow. With Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy, Ann C. Huppert taps into a known, but neglected resource--Peruzzi's autograph drawings--and reveals the full scope and artistic mastery of Peruzzi's work and its enduring influence. Extraordinary not only in their beauty and design inventiveness, but also in the varied representational techniques and practical mathematics noted within them, Peruzzi's drawings record an evolving artistic process. Reassessing his architectural masterworks, Huppert also explores lesser-known work: his studies of Roman antiquity, realized paintings and unrealized buildings, as well as engineering projects. Huppert shows that Peruzzi anticipated modern representational methods and scientific approaches in architecture, and pinpoints the moment when architecture began to emerge as a profession distinct from the other arts"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Elusive Peruzzi; title: Becoming 'Baldassarre architetto de Siena'; title: The Lessons of Ancient Rome; title: From Painting to Architecture: Peruzzi's Evolving Methods of Design; title: Peruzzi's Legacy.