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Humanism and the Urban World : Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City by Caspar Pearson (2013, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-100271063696
ISBN-139780271063690
eBay Product ID (ePID)176402479
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Number of Pages280 Pages
Publication NameHumanism and the Urban World : Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City
LanguageEnglish
SubjectIndividual Architects & Firms / General, Regional, Movements / Humanism, History / Renaissance
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Architecture
AuthorCaspar Pearson
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Pearson's use of Alberti's writings is imaginative and exhaustive, yet tactful. This is a rich and accessible account of a thinker whose concern with both rational reform and social stability could not be more timely." --Charles Burroughs, Renaissance Quarterly, "Pearson's use of Alberti's writings is imaginative and exhaustive, yet tactful. This is a rich and accessible account of a thinker whose concern with both rational reform and social stability could not be more timely." -Charles Burroughs, Renaissance Quarterly, "Pearson's use of Alberti's writings is imaginative and exhaustive, yet tactful. This is a rich and accessible account of a thinker whose concern with both rational reform and social stability could not be more timely." --Charles Burroughs Renaissance Quarterly, &"Pearson&'s use of Alberti&'s writings is imaginative and exhaustive, yet tactful. This is a rich and accessible account of a thinker whose concern with both rational reform and social stability could not be more timely.&" &-Charles Burroughs, Renaissance Quarterly
Dewey Decimal720.92
Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Destruction 2 The Divided City 3 The Limits of Power 4 Beyond the City 5 The Suburbs and Other Places 6 The Beautiful City Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria ( On the Art of Building in Ten Books ), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. Past scholars have generally characterized the Italian Renaissance architect and theorist as an enthusiast of the city who envisioned it as a rational, Renaissance ideal. Pearson argues, however, that Alberti's approach to urbanism was far more complex--that he was even "essentially hostile" to the city at times. Rather than proposing the "ideal" city, Pearson maintains, Alberti presented a variety of possible cities, each one different from another. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria. Chapters address Alberti's consideration of the city's possible destruction and the city's capacity to provide order despite its intrinsic instability; his assessment of a variety of political solutions to that instability; his affinity for the countryside and discussions of the virtues of the active versus the contemplative life; and his theories of aesthetics and beauty, in particular the belief that beauty may affect the soul of an enemy and thus preserve buildings from attack., In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well ......, In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. Past scholars have generally characterized the Italian Renaissance architect and theorist as an enthusiast of the city who envisioned it as a rational, Renaissance ideal. Pearson argues, however, that Alberti's approach to urbanism was far more complex--that he was even "essentially hostile" to the city at times. Rather than proposing the "ideal" city, Pearson maintains, Alberti presented a variety of possible cities, each one different from another. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria. Chapters address Alberti's consideration of the city's possible destruction and the city's capacity to provide order despite its intrinsic instability; his assessment of a variety of political solutions to that instability; his affinity for the countryside and discussions of the virtues of the active versus the contemplative life; and his theories of aesthetics and beauty, in particular the belief that beauty may affect the soul of an enemy and thus preserve buildings from attack.
LC Classification NumberNA1123.A5P43 2011
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