Architecture and language : constructing identity in European architecture c.1000-c.1650 / edited by Georgia Clarke, Paul Crossley
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000
Descript
xiii, 237 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
CONTENT
English with a French accent: architectural Franglais in late-twelfth-century England? -- French Gothic in central and southern Italy in the last quarter of the thirteenth century -- Describing architecture in the high middle ages -- Architectural vision in Albrecht von Scharfenberg's Jungerer Titurel-A vision of achitecture? -- Architecture, language, and rhetoric in Alberti's De re aedificatoria -- Architecture, texts, and imitation in late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century Rome -- Sanmicheli's architecture and literary theory -- Rhetorical model in the formation of French architectural language in the sixteenth century: The Triumphal Arch as commonplace -- Montrous babels: language and architectural style in the English renaissance -- Languages and architecture in Scotland, 1500-1660