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Origins, imitation, conventions : representation in the visual arts / James S. Ackerman.

Title: Origins, imitation, conventions : representation in the visual arts / James S. Ackerman.
Author: Ackerman, James S.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002.

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xi, 328 p. : ill., maps, plans; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

On origins of art history and criticism -- The origins of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Leonardo da Vinci's church designs -- On the origins of architectural photography -- Imitation -- Art and science in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci -- The aesthetics of architecture in the Renaissance -- The influence of antiquity on Italian Renaissance villas -- Daniele Barbaro and Vitruvius -- Palladio: classical in what sense? -- Thomas Jefferson and Italy -- The conventions and rhetoric of architectural drawing.

ISBN

0262011867 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001044155

OCLC

47295757

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Harvard Library