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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450668403321

Autore

Lefaivre Liane

Titolo

The emergence of modern architecture : a documentary history from 1000 to 1810 / / Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-50999-5

0-415-26024-8

1-280-07672-0

0-203-38051-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (550 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TzonisAlexander

Disciplina

720/.9

Soggetti

Architecture - History

Architecture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 502-525) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustration sources; Preface; The Structure of Change Alexander Tzonis; late tenth century Leo of Naples'Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle' Alexander Romance; 1057 Adelhard Account of the Abbey of Saint-Trond; late 1120s Hugh of Saint-VictorDidascalicon; 1125 Bernard of Clairvaux Strong Words to William; c.1143 Anonymous The Marvels of the City of Rome; 1144 Abbot Suger On the Consecration of the Church of Saint Denis; 1144  1149 Abbot Suger On Matters of Administration; 1225  1250 Villard de Honnecourt Sketchbook

c.1270 Albrecht von Scharfenberg The Young Titurellate thirteenth century Marco Polo, Rustichello of Pisa and others The Travels of Marco Polo; c.1306  1309 Dante (Alighieri) Inferno; April 26, 1342 (Francesco) Petrarch The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; late summer 1347 (Francesco) Petrarch Vaucluse; 1400, 1401 Anonymous Annals of the Duomo of Milan; c.1410 Christine de Pisan The Book of Military and Chivalric Feats; c.1428 Leon Battista Alberti Book

Sommario/riassunto

The book records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as



we know them today.