Architecture Of The Italian Renaissance, The

Description:
Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and 35 key architects, this title examines social context, religious beliefs, political power-structures, technical innovation, aesthetic judgement. It includes over 300 photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions. This is sure to be the recognized textbook for the foreseeable future.

Table of Contents:
I. The Fifteenth Century; 1. Brunelleschi, Donatello and Michelozzo; 2. Alberti and His Contemporaries; 3. Francesco del Borgo and Roman Architecture from Pius II to Sixtus IV; 4. Florentine Architecture Under Lorenzo de'Medici; 5. Luciano Laurana, Francesco di Giorgio and Architecture Under Frederico da Montafeltro; 6. Bramante and the Lombard Early Renaissance; 7. The Venetian Early Renaissance 8. Architecture Under Innocent VIII and Alexander VI; II. The Cinquecento; 1. Bramante and his His School; 2. Architecture in Northern Italy; 3. Michelangelo; 4. Late Renaissance; 5. Andrea Palladio.

Author Biography:
Christoph Luitpold Frommel was born in 1933 and has held academic posts in Germany (Bonn University), the USA (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and University of California, Berkeley) and Italy (La Sapienza, Rome). He was Director of the Bibliotheca Herziana, Rome, from 1980 to 2001.