Renaissance architecture : critics, patrons, luxury / by David Thomson

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes documents in French (Appendices). Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index. Contents; Preface: Bowerbirds and architecture -- 1. Luxury and building: The long life of an issue. From Genesis to Perpendicular England. Renaissance Italy. The Reformation: Fun in Protestant Basle, insecurity in Catholic Vienna. Venice: Architecture as luxury confronted. Magnificence versus luxury in northern Europe. 'Quo vadis?' -- 2. Luxury architecture in fiction and philosophy. The classical heritage. The Renaissance. 'Quo vadis?' -- 3. Renaissance architectures and peoples. The problem of authority. Language, national identity and building. Books on architecture: Manuals and treatises for all nations? Roads from Rome. Exceptions to the pluralist argument. 'Out of Italy'. 'Quo vadis?' -- 4. Uses of wealth. The admirable wealthy. Towers, coaches and funerary monuments. Money into art into money into oblivion. 'Quo vadis?' -- 5. Poverty, luxury and architecture -- Appendix 1 Amadis de Gaule -- Appendix 2 L'Ombre et Tombeau de Marguerite de France. Subjects; 1500-1599. Architecture, Renaissance. Architects and patrons. Architecture and society History 16th century. Architecture de la Renaissance. Architecture and society. Architecture Aspect social. Architecture and society. Architecture, Renaissance. Architects and patrons. Architecture and society History 16th century. Architecture and society History. Art patronage. Art patronage History 15th century. Art patronage History 16th century. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE. Architecture, Renaissance. Architects and patrons. Renaissance architecture history philosophy. Renaissance architecture : history. Architecture General treatises on building. Architecture Styles and periods Renaissance (c. 1520-1650). Architecture Theory and criticism. Art patronage Europe 16th century. Art patronage Europe 17th century.