Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9780262700542
ISBN: 0262700549
Label: The MIT Press
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: March 27, 1995
Publisher: The MIT Press
Sales Rank: 842305
Studio: The MIT Press

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Editorial Review:

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"One of architecture's greatest living minds. . . . Tafuri's example has proved powerfully liberating for the historical imagination." -- Herbert Muschamp, New York Times

"Tafuri is one of the most influential figures in architectural history of the Renaissance and modern periods today. . . . This is not simply a work about Venice's man-made physical environment, but an introduction to the Venetian Renaissance that is likely to be relevant to the work of any scholar concerned with the culture of that time." -- James Ackerman, Renaissance Quarterly

Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them.




Rating: - A major work on Venetian Renaissance architecture
that would have been infinitely more useful to the Anglophone reader if it had not been given such an awful translation from the Italian. Not only does the translator frequently misconstrue idiomatic expressions (so that the author's ambitious socio-cultural interpretations come out sounding rather goofy), but often enough the meaning gets inverted, resulting in contradictions and absurdities. Tafuri is theoretically inclined (his sociology is non-ideologically Marxist), and does not write the ... Read More

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