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Bearers of Meaning
The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance
John Onians
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Bearers of Meaning
The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance
John Onians
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For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2, 000 years from their first appearance in ancient Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the orders--the columns and capitals known as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite--were made to serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue.
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Histoire de l'architectureIndex
Italie numbers indicate pages with illustrations
Aachen, palace chapel, 76, 77, 85, 113
Academy, Platonic, at Florence, 161
Ackerman, J. S., 327
acoustics, see barycephalae temples; intonantie
Acragas, Olympieum, 27
Actium, Battle of, 32
Adam, 163
Adelhard, Abbot, 86
Aeneas and Anchises, 259
Aeolic dialect, 28
Aeolic order, 14, 28, 47
Aeolis, 12, 14, 28
Aeschylus, 15
Agorius Praetextatus, Vettius, 71
Alberti, Leon Battista, 43, 47, 127, 134, 136, 169–71, 174, 176, 192, 223; buildings, 182–85, 194 writings: Della famiglia, 133, 150; De pictura (Della pittura), 131, 146, 147, 159; De re aedificatoria, 147–57, 182, 183, 207; De statua, 147
Alcmaeonids, 13
Alcuin, 76
Alessi, Galeazzo, 311, 312, 315, 317
Alexander the Great, 19, 22, 23, 79
Alexandria, 27, 28
Ambrose, St, 69
Amiens, cathedral, 88, 90
Ammanati, Bartolomeo, 319–20
Amyclae, throne of Apollo, 14, 15, 18
Ancona, arch of Trajan, 268
Angelico, Fra, Annunciation, 145, 145
Angilbert, 78, 79
Aniane, monastery, 78–79, 81
animals, buildings like, 149
Anthony, Mark, 32, 40
anthropomorphism, 4, 8, 34, 75, 81, 86, 148, 149, 155, 159, 162–70
Antichrist, architecture of, 244
Antoninus Pius, see emperors
Aosta, amphitheatre, 51
Aphrodisias, Sebasteion, 46
appropriateness (decor, decorum), 36–37, 39–40, 51, 68, 123–26, 151, 154–57, 180, 186, 210–14, 220, 235, 253, 273, 275, 290, 319. See also licence; morality; rules
Aquinas, St Thomas, 123–24, 174, ...