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From Quantitative to Qualitative Architecture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A New Musical Perspective
Abstract In Rudolf Wittkower’s influential view, Renaissance musical theory, based on Pythagorean and Platonic proportions, is a paradigm of harmony, order, and spatial organisation in architecture from Alberti to Palladio. However, sources from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) and other sixteenth-century French treatises, through René Ouvrard’s Architecture Harmonique (1679) seem to show another, undiscovered story. The keys to interpretation include a different philological reading of Vitruvian theory of proportion, as Fra’ Giocondo’s French lessons show. This is a starting point for a particular sixteenth-century passage between two differents conceptions of architecture – from anthropomorphic to rhetoric, from volumetric to linear, and from quantitative to qualitative – which will find a definitive arrangement in the seventeenth century.
From Quantitative to Qualitative Architecture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A New Musical Perspective
Abstract In Rudolf Wittkower’s influential view, Renaissance musical theory, based on Pythagorean and Platonic proportions, is a paradigm of harmony, order, and spatial organisation in architecture from Alberti to Palladio. However, sources from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) and other sixteenth-century French treatises, through René Ouvrard’s Architecture Harmonique (1679) seem to show another, undiscovered story. The keys to interpretation include a different philological reading of Vitruvian theory of proportion, as Fra’ Giocondo’s French lessons show. This is a starting point for a particular sixteenth-century passage between two differents conceptions of architecture – from anthropomorphic to rhetoric, from volumetric to linear, and from quantitative to qualitative – which will find a definitive arrangement in the seventeenth century.
From Quantitative to Qualitative Architecture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A New Musical Perspective
Zara, Vasco (author)
Nexus Network Journal ; 13 ; 411-430
2011-06-08
20 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
René Ouvrard , Rudolf Wittkower , Architecture Harmonique , Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , seventeenth-century French architecture , musical proportions , architectural orders , rhetorical paradigm Mathematics , Mathematics, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Popular Science, general , History, general
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