The Literary Remains of Sebastiano Serlio

1942 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bell Dinsmoor
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1970 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Myra Nan Rosenfeld ◽  
Marco Rosci
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1942 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bell Dinsmoor
Keyword(s):  

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 187-224
Author(s):  
Nicholas Riall

The reign of Mary i (24 July 1553–17 November 1558) is widely seen as a disaster for both the woman herself and her devout faith. It can be argued that she did more than anyone to make England a Protestant nation. When we seek to find any trace of her patronage of the arts or of major building projects, we find that little survives. Eamon Duffy called such traces the ‘disjecta membra’. Yet each piece, each surprising survival, demonstrates an awareness of the latest fashions, embracing a forward-looking form of Renaissance arts rather than a backward-looking, conservative Gothic. To discover and emphatically assign a major new piece of work to this catalogue of relics is justifiably a cause of celebration. In 2011, Charles Tracy FSA re-assessed the Marian choir stalls now in Holy Trinity church, Sutton Coldfield (in Warwickshire), rightly calling them the ‘refugee choir stalls from Worcester’, for it was from Worcester cathedral that this magnificent suite was evicted in a fit of Victorian vandalism. In this article, the author demonstrates that these choir stalls were created through the patronage of Mary i, and their makers evoked in their creation ideas and fashions that emanated from Hans Holbein and Sebastiano Serlio, to create what is a unique set of work.


Author(s):  
Ricardo Marques de Azevedo
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<p>Architecture Parlante: em fins do século 18, insiste-se no topos de que a Arquitetura deve falar. Se fala, fá-lo por meio de uma linguagem. Entretanto como se pode entender o que a Arquitetura diz ou pretende dizer? O falar da Arquitetura, como toda linguagem, é, em larga medida, arbitrário, porquanto ele se produz e reproduz também a partir de convenções que se confirmam e propagam pela reiteração e pelo costume. Assim, no discurso da Arquitetura de extração clássica, além das ditas ordens arquitetônicas, operam a inserção tipológica e afirmação do caráter que deve inerir a toda obra que se pleiteie como Arquitetura. Se a consolidação das ordens é produto relativamente tardio – pois data do século 16, com o Livro IV de Arquitetura de Sebastiano Serlio, editado em 1537 –, os tipos já estavam discriminados no De Arquitetura de Vitrúvio, que procede a uma extensa taxonomia do tipo templo e descreve com minúcia a distribuição do teatro. O conceito de caráter remete à vetusta acepção de decoro, que, por sua vez, é subsumida à de verossimilhança, consagrada na Arte Poética de<br />Aristóteles. Este ensaio procura descrever a fortuna histórica e crítica das noções de tipo e de caráter nos lindes do sistema disciplinar referido à tradição clássica na Arquitetura.</p>


Author(s):  
Francesco Benelli

This essay offers new insights into the civic value and the reception of the Arch of Trajan for Renaissance architecture in Ancona, a city almost completely overlooked by Renaissance historiography because of the destruction of most of its buildings. Built in 115 AD the Arch was meant to celebrate the Emperor’s victory in the Dacian wars, whose fleet departed from Ancona. Looking to sources to be found outside of the city it is possible to examine the legacy of the arch – a monument praised by Sebastiano Serlio and Andrea Palladio, among others -‐ in public and religious architecture, as well as its role in creating the identity of the city. Some motifs from the arch appear already in Giorgio da Sebenico’s late Gothic church portals of S. Agostino and S. Francesco alle Scale, as well as in the Loggia dei Mercanti (late 1450’s, early 1460’s), but its first important depiction is by Pinturicchio in the Piccolomini library in Siena. Here the arch is placed adjacent to Pius II’s, celebrating the (failed) departure of the fifth crusade from Ancona’s harbour in 1464 as a neo-Trajanic enterprise.


1942 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bell Dinsmoor
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1942 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bell Dinsmoor
Keyword(s):  

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