Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi

Name: Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi
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ISBN: 9780262580892

ISBN-10: 0262580896

ISBN-13: 9780262580892

Edition: 1988

Authors: George L. Hersey

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Why do architects still use the classical orders? Why use forms derived from ancient Greek temples when ancient Greek religion has been dead for centuries and when the way of life they expressed is extinct? And why decorate a contemporary courthouse with the bones, eggs, darts, claws, and garlands that an ancient Greek would recognize as the trappings of animal sacrifice? With these provocative questions George Hersey begins his recovery of the meaning of classical architecture. For the last four centuries, he shows, philology and formalism have drained architecture of its poetry. By analyzing this poetry - the tropes founded on the Greek terms for ornamental detail - he reconstructs a…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/10/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 213
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Troping Ornament



Architecture and Sacrifice



Images of Temple Founders



The Caryatid and Persian Porticoes



Francesco di Giorgio, Michelangelo, and Raphael



Cesariano, The Vitruvius Teutsch, and Sambin


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index