TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berthold Hub
AU  - Angeliki Polalli
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Reconstructing Francesco di Giorgio Architect
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108703
N2  - Francesco di Giorgio Martini is one of the few fifteenth century Sienese artists who became known outside his native city. Working at the courts of Urbino, Naples and Milan, he was a typical Renaissance uomo universale but his major achievements were in military and civil architecture, complemented by the composition of a theoretical treatise. The collection of essays does not offer a comprehensive study of the artist’s architectural œuvre, but rather emphasizes the partial nature of the scholarly endeavor so far undertaken. The essays discuss Francesco’s theory, his drawings from the antique, the individual characteristics of his practice, and the reception of his work. They share a common idea: invention, which emerges as a valid theoretical framework, possibly the only one capable of encompassing Francesco di Giorgio’s versatile accomplishments.
KW  - theory, practice, invention
LA  - English
ER  -