Victorian perceptions of renaissance architecture
Auteur :
Wheeler, Katherine
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781472418821
Date de publication :
9 mai 2014
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
540 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In the mid-1880s, an influential British architectural journal published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corruption of classical architecture. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the 'Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.