VOLUME I
THE COMPANIONS TO THE
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
General Editor: Harry Francis Mallgrave
RENAISSANCE AND
BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE
Volume Editor: Alina Payne
THE COMPANIONS TO THE HISTORY
OF ARCHITECTURE
General Editor: Harry Francis Mallgrave
Volume I
Renaissance and
Baroque Architecture
Edited by
Alina Payne
Contents
List of Illustrations
About the Editors
Contributors to Volume I
Contents of The Companions to the History of Architecture
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Introduction: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
Alina Payne
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Part I The Building Blocks
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Architecture and its Culture
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1. When did the Renaissance in Architecture Begin?: From Panofskian Mythography to
Vasarian History
Marvin Trachtenberg
2. Vitruvius and the Architectural Treatise in Early Modern Europe
Tod A. Marder
3. Architecture and Antique Sculpture in Early Modern Rome
Kathleen Christian
4. What Drawings did in Renaissance Italy
Cammy Brothers
5. Materiality, Ornament, and Media Overlaps: Architecture Between Art and
Building Science
Alina Payne
6. Theater and Architecture: Toward a Material History of Renaissance Theater
Alice Jarrard
7. Architecture and the Sciences
Pamela O. Long
8. Vaults and Domes: Statics as an Art
Federico Bellini
City, War, and Religion
9. The Birth of the Modern City
Claudia Conforti
10. The City at War and the Semantic Armament of Renaissance Architecture
Marion Hilliges
11. Taking Place: Architecture and Religious Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Helen Hills
12. Jesuit Architecture Worldwide: A Culture of Corporate Invention
Evonne Levy
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Part II Global Geographies and European Internationalism
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France, the Low Countries and Britain
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13. Medici Queens as Patrons in France
Sabine Frommel
14. Classicism and Church Architecture in Early Seventeenth-Century France:
Aspects and Debates
Erika Naginski
15. Religious Architecture and the Image in the Southern Netherlands after the Beeldenstorm:
Shrines for Miracle-Working Statues of the Virgin Mary
Maarten Delbeke
16. British Classicism to 1700 and the Search for a National Architectural Style
Vaughan Hart
17. Understanding Roman Architecture from a Distance: Sir Christopher Wren on the
Temples of Peace and of Mars the Avenger
Caroline van Eck
Iberia, Spanish Italy, the Ottomans, and Latin America
18. Al-Andalus and Castile: Art and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula
Maria Judith Feliciano and Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza
19. The Spanish Kingdom of Southern Italy: Architecture in Naples, Lecce, L’Aquila
Daniela del Pesco
20. Architectural Dialogues across the Eastern Mediterranean: Monumental
Domed Sanctuaries in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy
Gülru Necipoğlu
21. The Classical Ideal in Portugal and the Portuguese World: From Lisbon
to China
Nuno Senos
22. Baroque Spain: Architecture and Urbanism for a Universal Monarchy
Jesús Escobar
23. The Architecture of the Early Modern Period “Because Vitruvius did not
Recommend Square Columns”: Europe, Latin America, and the Globalization
of the Renaissance
Tom Cummins
The German Lands and Bohemia
24. Northern Imaginative Antiquarianism: The Dismembered Column as Relic and Tool
Christopher P. Heuer
25. The Reception and Flowering of Classicism in the German Lands
Harry Francis Mallgrave
26. Crossbreeding Cultures: Italian and Local, Elite and Popular: Building in Bohemia,
1490–1720
Dirk De Meyer
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