Title The Italian piazza transformed : Parma in the communal age / Areli Marina

Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents About the reconstruction diagrams -- Introduction -- The production of order. (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo -- (Re)constructing the communal piazza -- The piazza and public life. The legislation of order -- The eloquent piazza -- Epilogue. Parma's spatial practice compared -- Appendixes. On measurement, module, and geometry in medieval Parma -- The communal buildings of Parma : evidence and interpretation -- Salimbene de Adam's account of Parma's late thirteenth-century -- Architectural projects Summary During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheaval. In The Italian Piazza Transformed, Areli Marina examines the radical transformation of Parma's urban center in this tumultuous period by reconstructing the city's two most significant public spaces: its cathedral and communal squares. Treating the space of these piazzas as attentively as the buildings that shape their perimeters, she documents and discusses the evolution of each site from 1196, tracing their construction by opposing political factions within the city's ruling elite. By the early fourteenth century, Parma's patrons and builders had imposed strict geometric order on formerly inchoate sites, achieving a formal coherence attained by few other cities. Moreover, Marina establishes that the piazzas' orderly contours, dramatic open spaces, and monumental buildings were more than grand backdrops to civic ritual. Parma's squares were also agents in the production of the city-state's mechanisms of control. They deployed brick, marble, and mortar according to both ancient Roman and contemporary courtly modes to create a physical embodiment of the modern, syncretic authority of the city's leaders. By weaving together traditional formal and iconographic approaches with newer concepts of the symbolic, social, and political meanings of urban space, Marina reframes the complex relationship between late medieval Italy's civic culture and the carefully crafted piazzas from which it emerged Analysis Communal Age Italian Piazza Italy Marini architecture building city-state civic ritual construction culture parma politics transformed Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Architecture, Medieval -- Italy -- Parma Architecture and society -- Italy -- Parma ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial. ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Medieval. Architecture and society Architecture, Medieval Buildings SUBJECT Piazza del Duomo (Parma, Italy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011001688 Piazza Garibaldi (Parma, Italy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95008019 Parma (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc Subject Italy -- Parma Italy -- Parma -- Piazza del Duomo Italy -- Parma -- Piazza Garibaldi Form Electronic book LC no. 2011014230 ISBN 9780271058917 0271058919 9780271055626 0271055626 0271053976 9780271053974

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