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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Cover; PIENZA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 From Corsignano to Pienza: The Project Begins; 2 The First Phase: The Monumental Area; 3 The Second Phase: Other Public and Private Buildings; 4 Pienza as an Urban Statement; APPENDIXES; 1 Fifteenth-Century Descriptions of Pienza, with Translations by Catherine Castner; 2 Documentary Evidence for the Building of Pienza from the Archivio di Stato, Rome; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Pienza, a small hill town in north central Italy, represents one of the major architectural masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Starting in 1459, under the sponsorship of Pope Pius II, it was rebuilt into a model Renaissance cityscape. Renamed in the pope's honor, Pienza is both a monument to papal will and the high point in the career of the supervising architect, Bernardo Rossellino. Because its physical state has changed only slightly since the fifteenth century, Pienza offers us a unique opportunity to see a variety of building traditions (Roman, Florentine, Sienese) and theoretical positions (Brunelleschian and Albertian) combined in an almost perfectly preserved urban environment. "The town," writes Charles Mack, "is a Renaissance Williamsburg without the artificiality of restoration."Pienza, the first book-length treatment of the subject in English, traces the entire redevelopment of the community, from conception through construction, and establishes Pienza's place in the story of Renaissance architecture |
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Print version record |
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Pius II. Papst 1405-1464 gnd |
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Architecture, Renaissance.
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Architecture and state -- Italy -- Pienza
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Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Pienza
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Cities and towns, Renaissance -- Italy -- Pienza
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HISTORY -- Renaissance.
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Architecture and state
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Architecture, Renaissance
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Architektur
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Bouwkunst.
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Renaissance.
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Geschichte (1400-1500).
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Geschichte (1420-1500).
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Geschichte (1420-1530).
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Geschichte (1459-1464).
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Italy -- Pienza
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Pienza
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hammond, Mary S
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| ISBN |
9781501746048 |
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1501746049 |
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