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Author and audience in Vitruvius' De architectura
- Title
- Author and audience in Vitruvius' De architectura / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols, Georgetown University.
- Author
- Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick, 1981-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 17-11644 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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" --
- Series Statement
- Greek culture in the Roman world
- Uniform Title
- Greek culture in the Roman world.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (University of Cambridge, 2009) under the title: Vitruvius and the rhetoric of display: wall painting, domestic architecture and Roman self-fashioning.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and indexes.
- Contents
- Greek knowledge and the Roman world -- The self-fashioning of scribes -- House and man -- Art display and strategies of persuasion -- The vermilion walls of Faberius scriba.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-11644
- ISBN
- 9781107003125
- 1107003121
- LCCN
- 2017009165
- OCLC
- 984898699
- Author
- Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick, 1981- author.
- Title
- Author and audience in Vitruvius' De architectura / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols, Georgetown University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Greek culture in the Roman worldGreek culture in the Roman world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-11644