All the King’s Horses

Vitruvius in an Age of Princes

Indra Kagis Mcewen

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MIT Press
16 May 2023

Architecture

How the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture-and justified their right to rule.

How the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture-and justified their right to rule.

In Vitruvius- Writing the Body of Architecture, Indra Kagis McEwen argued that Vitruvius's first-century BC treatise De architectura was informed by imperial ideology, giving architecture a role in the imperial Roman project of world rule. In her sequel, All the King's Horses, McEwen focuses on the early Renaissance reception of Vitruvius's thought beginning with Petrarch-a political reception preoccupied with legitimating existing power structures. During this ""age of princes"" various signori took over Italian towns and cities, displacing independent communes and their avowed ideal of the common good. In turn, architects, taking up Vitruvius's mantle, designed for these princes with the intent of making their power manifest-and celebrating ""the rule of one.""

Through meticulous descriptions of the work of architects and artists from Leon Battista Alberti to Leonardo, McEwen explains how architecture became an instrument of control in the early Italian Renaissance. She shows how architectural magnificence supported claims to power, a phenomenon best displayed in one of the era's most prominent monumental themes- the equestrian statue of a prince, in which the horse became an emanation of the will of the rider, its strength the expression of his strength.

By: Indra Kagis Mcewen
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 159mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262047616
ISBN 10: 0262047616
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue ix 1 Renaissance 1 2 Symmetry Takes Command 29 3 World Heritage, Urbino 61 4 Virtu-vious 127 5 The Architectonic Book 177 6 All the King's Horses 201 Epilogue 285 Acknowledgments 293 Notes 295 References 319 Index 355

Indra Kagis McEwen is an architect, historian, and affiliate professor in the Art History Department at Concordia University in Montreal. Her publications include two books, Socrates' Ancestor- An Essay on Architectural Beginnings (1993) and Vitruvius- Writing the Body of Architecture (2003), both published by the MIT Press.

Reviews for All the King’s Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes

""McEwen’s thoughtful book not only helps us better understand a particular moment in the Renaissance fascination with Vitruvius but also invites us to reflect on the way that this ancient architectural treatise functions as a lens on a changing world."" —Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians