The City Rehearsed Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries.pdf

The City Rehearsed
The City Rehearsed examines architecture and print culture after the Reformation.
Centered on the herlandish painter Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526–1609),
it discusses changes in the definition of perspective and ornament under Protestant
critiques of the image, and looks at some of the fascinating ways architecture was
redefined by the ability of art to circulate globally.
The first sustained study of Vredeman in English, Heuer’s book tracks the
movement of his works to Spain, Mexico, and beyond, arguing for a new way of writing
about European art around 1600. Aside from criteria like beauty and humanism, it
turns to categories like collaboration, copying, and failure to map the intellectual horizons
(and art-historical afterlife) of a moment after the “Renaissance” had matured. This
engaging book will be of interest to any student of architectural history, art history,
philosophy, or early modern culture.
Christopher P. Heuer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at
Princeton University.
The Classical Tradition in Architecture
Series Editor: Caroline van Eck, Leiden University, Netherlands
Classical architecture not only provided a repertoire of forms and building types
capable of endless transformation; it was also a cultural actor and provided cultural
capital, and was used to create political and religious identities. This series provides a
forum for its interdisciplinary study, from antiquity to the present day. It aims to publish
first-class and groundbreaking scholarship that re-examines, reinterprets, or revalues
the classical tradition in the widest sense. The series will deal with classicism as a
cultural phenomenon, a formal language of design, but also with its role in establishing
the agenda, method and grammar of inquiry in Western history of art and architecture
and recent reconsiderations of these roles.
Power & Virtue:
Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730
Li Sh