Umfang:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135694807
Serie:
The Classical Tradition in Architecture Series
Inhalt:
The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It studies early modern science and technology, Baroque court culture, and the development of the discipline of architecture
Anmerkung:
Intro -- François Blondel Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Editorial note -- Introduction -- Architecture and erudition -- Aims and structure of the book -- 1 Mathematician, engineer, courtier -- Early sources and family background -- Trial by fire: Richelieu -- Brienne: minister of state and patron of science -- The European voyage -- Diplomacy -- Colbert and Paris -- Louis XIV -- The career of a client -- 2 The rebirth of French classicism I: the Académie Royale d'Architecture -- Entrepreneurs and architects -- The Académie and the maîtrise -- Libertinage and the crisis of the Louvre -- La belle architecture -- The Cours d'architecture -- Colbert and Blondel -- 3 The rebirth of French classicism II: Paris -- The Paris plan and the royal entry -- The city gates: the Porte Saint-Denis -- The Porte Saint-Martin -- The Porte Saint-Antoine -- The Porte Saint-Bernard -- The Cours Royal -- Urban space and the promenade -- Colbert and Paris -- 4 Architects and mathematicians -- The mathematical practitioner: between the scientist and the artisan -- "Il n'est pas praticien" -- Nicomedes's compass -- Rampant arches and conic sections -- The breaking resistance of beams -- The contemporary reception -- Blondel and the Vitruvian tradition -- L'intelligence des anges -- 5 Architecture versus erudition: the Perrault-Blondel debate revisited -- The dispute -- Claude Perrault's Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes (1683) -- Literary idols: Ouvrard, Philandrier, and Fréart -- Studia humanitatis -- Mathematics as erudition -- 6 Architecture and the encyclopedia: Blondel as reader and collector -- Blondel and the "metamathematical" tradition -- Proportion and the "mixed" mathematical sciences -- The library: tradition, innovation, erudition
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The house, the curiosity collection, and the study -- The library: size -- Languages and subjects -- Bibliothéconomie as an intellectual ideal -- Architecture and the encyclopedia -- Conclusion: Blondel's Nachleben -- The eighteenth-century fortune -- From érudit to pedant -- Blondel and the architects -- How history forgets you -- Documents I: Letters patent, October 1659 -- Documents II: Inventory of the library, February 1686 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photographic acknowledgements -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Gerbino, Anthony François Blondel Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780415491990
Sprache:
Englisch
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