Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Ethic and Aesthetic: The Role of Early Illustrations in Serlio’s Book of Antiquities
Abstract Serlio’s treatise on architecture, Architettura (1547), undoubtedly set a precedent in the way this discipline started to be taught through early printed books from the Renaissance. Unlike others treatises from that time, which were mostly written in Latin and addressed to patrons and scholars, Serlio’s Architettura was intended as a didactic educational architectural guidebook, easily comprehensible to anyone interested in this discipline. Perhaps one of the main characteristics of his treatise was the way he included illustrations throughout the seven books that composed Architettura. Significant in this regard was the painter background Serlio had, beside what he learned from Baldassarre Peruzzi, which allowed him to conceive a cohesive graphic language along with the text in the pages of Architettura. Thereby, we found a book devoted completely to ancient buildings (Book III—On Antiquities), compiling “if not all, then at least a majority of those antiquities so that any person who enjoyed architecture could, wherever they find themselves, take this book to hand and see all the marvelous ruins of those Roman buildings.” (Serlio, S., Hart, V., & Hicks, P. (1996). Sebastiano Serlio on architecture. New Haven, Conn: Yale, p. 97.). This particular book could perfectly be defined as a protoatlas of illustrated ancient architecture by those days. It was innovative not only in what and how was showed for the first time, but also in fostering a taste for “exemplar” architecture with an emphasis for an “universal purpose” through these illustrated and selected monuments. This essay seeks to review Serlio’s main leitmotifs in how he initiated a new era of illustrated architectural treatises, where images were deliberately included and then were an inseparable part of these books, playing a decisive role in the field of ethic and aesthetic in the architectural education from that period. For this, the focus has been centered on three main issues selected particularly from Serlio’s Book III: (a) the importance of learning from Antiquity; (b) the role of Illustrations as records of ancient buildings and (c) the Judgment looking for Beauty.
Ethic and Aesthetic: The Role of Early Illustrations in Serlio’s Book of Antiquities
Abstract Serlio’s treatise on architecture, Architettura (1547), undoubtedly set a precedent in the way this discipline started to be taught through early printed books from the Renaissance. Unlike others treatises from that time, which were mostly written in Latin and addressed to patrons and scholars, Serlio’s Architettura was intended as a didactic educational architectural guidebook, easily comprehensible to anyone interested in this discipline. Perhaps one of the main characteristics of his treatise was the way he included illustrations throughout the seven books that composed Architettura. Significant in this regard was the painter background Serlio had, beside what he learned from Baldassarre Peruzzi, which allowed him to conceive a cohesive graphic language along with the text in the pages of Architettura. Thereby, we found a book devoted completely to ancient buildings (Book III—On Antiquities), compiling “if not all, then at least a majority of those antiquities so that any person who enjoyed architecture could, wherever they find themselves, take this book to hand and see all the marvelous ruins of those Roman buildings.” (Serlio, S., Hart, V., & Hicks, P. (1996). Sebastiano Serlio on architecture. New Haven, Conn: Yale, p. 97.). This particular book could perfectly be defined as a protoatlas of illustrated ancient architecture by those days. It was innovative not only in what and how was showed for the first time, but also in fostering a taste for “exemplar” architecture with an emphasis for an “universal purpose” through these illustrated and selected monuments. This essay seeks to review Serlio’s main leitmotifs in how he initiated a new era of illustrated architectural treatises, where images were deliberately included and then were an inseparable part of these books, playing a decisive role in the field of ethic and aesthetic in the architectural education from that period. For this, the focus has been centered on three main issues selected particularly from Serlio’s Book III: (a) the importance of learning from Antiquity; (b) the role of Illustrations as records of ancient buildings and (c) the Judgment looking for Beauty.
Ethic and Aesthetic: The Role of Early Illustrations in Serlio’s Book of Antiquities
Muñoz Vera, Gonzalo (Autor:in)
Architectural Draughtsmanship ; 1531-1542
27.09.2017
12 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Sebastiano Serlio , Antiquity , Book III , Illustrations , Architectural representation , Architectural treatises , Images , Text , Periodicals , Printed periodical , Architectural communication , Architectural teaching , Media Engineering , Engineering Design , Building Construction and Design , Construction Management , Creativity and Arts Education
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