The Villa Farnesina

Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-316-51101-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 285 mm, Gewicht: 2020 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, James Grantham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Wohngebäude
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. 'Antique' Imagination and the Creation of the Villa-Palazzo: Origins and Precursors; 2. The Stanza del Fregio and Peruzzi's first architectural wall-painting; 3. The Lost Façade-Paintings: 'Di terretta con storie di man sua, molto belle'; 4. 1512 Overtures: The Villa, the Landscape Architecture and the Literature of Celebration; 5. The Second Phase, 1518-1519: The 'Hall of Perspectives', the Nuptial Suite and the Loggia di Psiche.

Über Autor(innen)

Turner, James Grantham
James Grantham Turner is James D. Hart Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. A scholar of unusual range who brings together literature, art, the environment, cultural and intellectual history, and gender and sexuality, he is the author of eight books, including the Politics of Landscape and Eros Visible, the latter cited for its 'extraordinary vitality' and as a 'most important' contribution to Renaissance Studies. Turner has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.