Early modern spaces in motion : design, experience and rhetoric /
edited by Kimberley Skelton.
- 1 online resource (276 pages).
- Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 .
8. View of the Revolto soto la loza facing the Scala del giardino with Girolamo Romanino's Portrait of Paolo Alemanno above the Porta rusticha and The Hunt with Falcons, 1532, Magno Palazzo, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. (c) Castello del Buoncon.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Kimberley Skelton -- Introduction: Bodies and Buildings in Motion -- Kimberley Skelton -- 1. Navigating the Palace Underworld: Recreational Space, Pleasure, and Release at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent -- Chriscinda Henry -- 2. Passages to Fantasy: The Performance of Motion in Cellini's Fontainebleau Portal and the Galerie François I -- Nicole Bensoussan -- 3. The Catholic Country House in Early Modern England: Motion, Piety and Hospitality, c.1580-1640 -- Gašper Jakovac 4. Sensory Vibrations and Social Reform at San Michele a Ripa in Rome -- Kimberley Skelton -- 5. The Rise of the Staircase: Motion in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Domestic Architecture -- Freek Schmidt -- 6. Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque -- Edmund Thomas -- 7. A Paper Tour of the Metropolis: The Architecture of Early Modern London in the Royal Magazine -- Jocelyn Anderson -- 8. Libraries in Motion: Forms of Movement in the Early Modern Library (1450-1770) -- James W. P. Campbell -- Works Cited -- Index -- List of Illustrations 1. Sebastiano Serlio, Palace façades and plans, from Tutte l'opere d'architettura, et prospetiva, 1584. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. -- 2. Paul Decker, Garden wall of large entertaining room in princely palace, from Fürstlicher Baumeister, oder, Architectura civilis, 1711. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 3. Giovanni Battista Falda, Piazza del Popolo, from Il nuovo teatro delle fabriche, et edificii, in prospettiva di Roma moderna, sotto il felice pontificato di N. S. Papa Alessandro VII, volume 1, 1665. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, RB 433 -- 4. Loggia publicha with frescoes by Girolamo Romanino, 1531-1532, Magno Palazzo, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. (c) Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. -- 5. Andito alla scala with frescoes by Girolamo Romanino, 1531-1532, Magno Palazzo, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. (c) Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. 6. Girolamo Romanino, Buffoon Playing with a Monkey, 1531-1532, Scala del giardino, Magno Palazzo, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. (c) Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. -- 7. Girolamo Romanino, Sleeping Nymph and Satyr, 1532, Scala del giardino, Magno Palazzo, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy. (c) Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent, Italy.
Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, rather than segmented, movement. New spaces that included vistas along house interiors and uninterrupted library reading rooms offered open expanses for shaping sequences of social behaviour, scientists observed how the Earth rotated around the sun, and philosophers attributed emotions to neural vibrations in the human brain. Early Modern Spaces in Motion examines this increased emphasis on motion with eight essays encompassing a geographical span of Portugal to German-speaking lands and a disciplinary range from architectural history to English. It consequently merges longstanding strands of analysis considering people in motion and buildings in motion to explore the cultural historical attitudes underpinning the varied impacts of motion in early modern Europe. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
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Motion in architecture. Architecture--History--Europe--16th century. Architecture--History--Europe--18th century. Architecture and society--History--Europe--16th century. Architecture and society--History--Europe--18th century.