Aeolian winds and the spirit in Renaissance architecture [electronic resource] : Academia Eolia revisited / edited by Barbara Kenda.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2006.Description: xiv, 175 p. : ill., plansISBN:- 9780203967140 (e-book : PDF)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Aeolian winds and the spirit of Renaissance architecture : Academic Eolia revisited / Barbara Kenda -- 2. Chasma gês : Delphic pneuma and the cult of Asklepios / Richard M. Economakis -- 3. "Study the warm winds and the cold" : Hippocrates and the Renaissance villa / Matthew Hardy -- 4. The role of the winds in architectural theory from Vitruvius to Scamozzi / Alessandro Nova -- 5. Making visible the invisible : signs of air in architectural treatises / Paul Emmons and Marco Frascari -- 6. Poetry and "spirited" ancient sculpture in Renaissance Rome : Pomponio Leto's Academy to the sixteenth-century sculpture garden / Kathleen Wren Christian -- 7. The winds in the corners : Giulio Romano, the elements and the Palazzo Te's Fall of the Giants / David Mayernik -- 8. The breath of cities / Rebecca Williamson.
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