Venice and the Renaissance

Manfredo Tafuri, Jessica Levine

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Italian

MIT Press
27 March 1995

Theory of architecture; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

Series: The MIT Press

Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them.

By: Manfredo Tafuri
Translated by: Jessica Levine
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 885g
ISBN: 9780262700542
ISBN 10: 0262700549
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 27 March 1995
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Department of History of Architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice. Jessica Levine is a writer and translator living in New York City. She has previously translated two works by Manfredo Tafuri, History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985 and Venice and the Renaissance.

Reviews for Venice and the Renaissance

Tafuri is one of the most influential figures in architectural history of the Renaissance and modern periods today. . . . This is not simply a work about Venice's man-made physical environment, but an introduction to the Venetian Renaissance that is likely to be relevant to the work of any scholar concerned with the culture of that time. --James Ackerman, Renaissance Quarterly