Readings in Italian Mannerism II: architecture

Abstract

This collection celebrates the 450th year anniversary of the publication of Giorgio Vasari's Vite (The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects [Florence: Giunti, 1568]). -- back cover

Contents

Part I: Essential studies on the topic -- The Education of the Architect / Vitruvius -- The Fundamental Principles of Architecture / Vitruvius -- The Architecture ..., Book 9, Chapters 9-11 / Leon Battista Alberti -- The Entire Works on Architecture and Perspective / Sebastiono Serlio -- To the Artists in Design / Giorgio Vasari -- Michelangelo and the Porta Pia / Elisabeth B. MacDougall -- The Architecture of Mannerism / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner -- Part II: Reflections by contemporary scholars -- Giulio Romano : Mannerist Architect and Draftsman / Deborah H. Cibelli -- Message, Montage, Mannerism : Varieties of Extraordinary in Serlio's Extraordinary Book / Charles Burroughs -- Il Corridoio Vasariano : a Resplendent Passage to Medici and Vasari's Grandeur -- Giorgio Vasari and Mannerist Architecture : A Marriage of Beauty and Function in Urban Spaces / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Architectural Mannerism and the Polish-Lituanian Reformation / Andrzej Piotrowski.