Name: Author and Audience in Vitruvius'De Architectura (Greek Culture in the Roman World) (en Inglés)
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Author: Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
ISBN: 9781108969253

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Author and Audience in Vitruvius'De Architectura (Greek Culture in the Roman World) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

266

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108969253

Categorías

Arquitectura

Author and Audience in Vitruvius'De Architectura (Greek Culture in the Roman World) (en Inglés)

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Vitruvius' De architectura is the only extant classical text on architecture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinci is well-known. But what was the text's purpose in its own time (ca. 20s BCE)? In this book, Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols reveals how Vitruvius pitched the Greek discipline of architecture to his Roman readers, most of whom were undoubtedly laymen. The inaccuracy of Vitruvius' architectural rules, when compared with surviving ancient buildings, has knocked Vitruvius off his pedestal. Nichols argues that the author never intended to provide an accurate view of contemporary buildings. Instead, Vitruvius crafted his authorial persona and remarks on architecture to appeal to elites (and would-be elites) eager to secure their positions within an expanding empire. In this major new analysis of De architectura from archaeological and literary perspectives, Vitruvius emerges as a knowing critic of a social landscape in which the house made the man.