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Renaissance and Later Architecture and Ornament

Renaissance and Later Architecture and Ornament

by David Hemsoll and Paul Davies
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/10/2013

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This two-volume catalogue is the second Part of the catalogue raisonne devoted to the large corpus of architectural and topographical drawings from the Paper Museum. The first Part (A.IX), published in 2004, was dedicated to drawings of ancient Roman topography and architecture, while the present one covers Renaissance and seventeenth-century architectural drawings. Commissioned and collected by Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) and his younger brother Carlo Antonio (1606-89), these drawings are today divided between the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, and numerous other institutions and private collections worldwide. Bringing them here together emphasises the remarkable range and quality of the collection as a whole and provides an opportunity to bring to public attention drawings that are for the most part unpublished and unidentified. As a collection of mostly earlier material acquired rather than commissioned by Cassiano and Carlo Antonio, the drawings provide a comprehensive coverage of Renaissance architecture and architectural ornament, including churches, palaces, villas and military fortifications, as well as designs for architectural fitments and decorative schemes. Many of the drawings are of particular scholarly interest as actual project drawings from the hands, workshops or immediate circles of distinguished sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architects, including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Pirro Ligorio, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and Gianlorenzo Bernini. As such they are connected with some of the most famous buildings constructed or remodelled during this period, among them St Peter's and St John Lateran in Rome and the princely palaces in Mantua, Piacenza and Granada in Spain. A smaller group of drawings is associated with architectural theory and includes a remarkable series of facade schemes here attributed to Sebastiano Serlio. A general introductory essay in Volume One explores the distinctive character of the dal Pozzo collection of modern architectural drawings and is followed by the catalogue entries grouped into schemes for whole buildings, with plans and elevations (or both) of ecclesiastical and secular works arranged according to their location in Italy or, occasionally, France, Spain and elsewhere. Volume Two is devoted principally to architectural fitments, such as church furnishings, doorways and chimneys, as well as painted decorations and carved ornaments. It then moves to military subjects, cataloguing drawings of fortifications, sieges and related subjects, followed by three drawings of topographical views and two drawings, omitted in A.IX, of ancient decorative designs.
ISBN:
9781905375776
9781905375776
Category:
Renaissance art
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-10-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Harvey\Miller#Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Weight:
1.87kg
Paul Davies

Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, author and broadcaster. On 1 September 2006 Paul Davies will take up a new position as college professor at Arizona State University, the largest public university campus in the USA.

He will have the distinctive assignment to establish a new centre on foundational questions in science, to encompass cosmology, life, astrobiology and philosophy - a think tank for addressing complex issues in these areas. He has achieved an international reputation for his ability to explain the significance of advanced scientific ideas in simple language.

He is the author of some twenty-five books including The Mind of God, The Last Three Minutes and How to Build a Time Machine. Among other awards he has won the Templeton Prize, The Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize for science communication and a Glaxo Science Writers' Fellowship. In April 1999 the asteroid 1992 OG was officially named (6870) Pauldavies in his honour. Davies has extensive experience in all facets of the media.

He writes regularly for newspapers, journals and magazines in several countries. Notable among his contributions to radio are a series of documentaries on BBC Radio 3, and his television work has ranged from chat shows to scripting and presenting various documentaries, including his own series entitled The Big Questions and More Big Questions. Committed to bringing science to the wider public, Davies engages in a heavy program of public lecturing around the world, addressing scientific and religious topics.

As a supporter of the arts, he is also frequently involved in literary and artistic events both in Australia and internationally. The recipient of many awards and commendations, Davies won the Eureka Prize in 1991 for the promotion of science in Australia, and in 1993 he was presented with an Advance Australia Award for outstanding contributions to science. In 1995 Davies was awarded the Templeton Prize for progress in religion, the world's largest prize for intellectual endeavour.

Paul Davies is married, and has four children. He remains a British citizen. In addition to his passion for both traditional and contemporary art, he is interested in the history of the second world war, politics and economics. He also enjoys keeping fit and discussing geographical trivia.

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