Bearers of Meaning
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Bearers of Meaning

The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

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Bearers of Meaning

The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

About this book

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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Index

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, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. I. Classical Greece
  10. II. The Hellenistic world and the Roman Republic
  11. III. Vitruvius
  12. IV. The Roman Empire
  13. V. Early Christianity
  14. VI. The column in the Christian Middle Ages
  15. VII. The orders in the Christian Middle Ages
  16. VIII. The crisis of architecture: Medieval and Renaissance
  17. IX. The Tuscan Renaissance
  18. X. Alberti
  19. XI. Filarete
  20. XII. Francesco di Giorgio Martini
  21. XIII. Architects and theories in the later fifteenth century
  22. XIV. A new Christian architecture
  23. XV. Francesco Colonna
  24. XVI. Luca Pacioli
  25. XVII. Bramante
  26. XVIII. Raphael
  27. XIX. Serlio
  28. XX. Serlio’s Venice: Sansovino, Aretino, Titian, and Vasari
  29. XXI. Sixteenth-century choices
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index