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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius
Series: - Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 27
As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.
Ingrid D. Rowland lives in Rome, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely, including a translation of Vitruvius (Cambridge 1999; with Thomas Howe). She won the inaugural Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021.
Sinclair W. Bell lives in Chicago. He is the editor of several volumes concerned with the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Italy, and previously served as Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.
Contributors are: Antonio Becchi, Paul Davies, Victor Deupi, Francesca Fiorani, Rob Godman, Jessica Gritti, Daniel Harris-McCoy, Vaughan Hart, David Hemsoll, David Karmon, omas Noble Howe, Ann C. Huppert, Susan Klaiber, Bernd Kulawik, Lynne Lancaster, Francesco Marcorin, Martin McLaughlin, Werner Oechslin, Michel Paoli, Giovanni Di Pasquale, Alessandro Rovetta, Rabun Taylor, Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro, Wim Verbaal.
"Vitruvius is to architects as Hippocrates is to medical doctors. Yet the Roman author of De architectura, the only work on architecture to have survived from classical antiquity, and father as such of the architectural profession has not always received academic attention commensurate with his standing among architects. The publication of Brills companion to the reception of Vitruvius is a significant corrective and much-anticipated cause for celebration. [...] anyone interested in learning about Vitruvius, or any scholar seeking a single volume of essays by reputable authorities on an impressive range of Vitruvian topics would be wrong not to begin with this unique collection." - Indra Kagis McEwen, in: BMCR, 2024.11.22
Preface: Vitruvius, Unwitting Hero of Our Times
Paolo Clini
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell
1 Vitruvius from Manuscript to Print
Ingrid Rowland
2 Raphael and Fabio Calvo
Francesco P. Di Teodoro
3 On the Vitruvius of Cesare Cesariano
Alessandro Rovetta and Jessica Gritti
4 Who Was Vitruvius? a Renaissance Debate
Paul Davies and David Hemsoll
5 The Medieval Vitruvius
Wim Verbaal
6 Alberti and Vitruvius: Reception and Rejection of the Model in De re aedificatoria
Martin McLaughlin
7 Verona and Vitruvius
Paul Davies and David Hemsoll
8 Vitruvius in Bramantes Rome: Recovery, Interpretation, and Use of the Ancient Text
Ann C. Huppert
9 Vitruvius Educational Program in Antiquity and the Renaissance
Daniel E. Harris-McCoy
10 Sangallo, Tolomei, and the Program of the Accademia de lo Studio de lArchitettura on Vitruvius and Ancient Architecture
Bernd Kulawik
11 Vitruvius and Guarino Guarini
Susan Klaiber
12 Hermosura and Belleza in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Editions of Vitruvius
Victor Deupi
13 Making Vitruvius Speak English: Vitruvius and English Architecture up to Vitruvius Britannicus
Vaughan Hart
14 Vitruvius in the German-Speaking World
Werner Oechslin
15 Archaeological Perspectives on Vitruvius
Rabun Taylor
16 Vitruvius and Ancient Construction Method
Lynne C. Lancaster
17 How the opus francigenum Became the Gothic Style
Michel Paoli
18 Vitruvius and the Early Modern Worksite
David Karmon
19 Vitruvius and the Sangallos
Francesco Marcorin
20 Vitruvius and Palladio
Francesco Marcorin
21 Vitruvius and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns
Thomas Noble Howe
22 Echeia
Robert Godman
23 Scamilli Impares
Thomas Noble Howe
24 Vitruvius Science of Machines: Tradition or Innovation?
Giovanni Di Pasquale
25 Vitruvius Historiae and the Love of Learning
Antonio Becchi
26 The Invention of the Vitruvian Man: Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci, and Beyond
Francesca Fiorani
Index
Paolo Clini
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell
Part 1: Transmission
1 Vitruvius from Manuscript to Print
Ingrid Rowland
Part 2: Translation
2 Raphael and Fabio Calvo
Francesco P. Di Teodoro
3 On the Vitruvius of Cesare Cesariano
Alessandro Rovetta and Jessica Gritti
4 Who Was Vitruvius? a Renaissance Debate
Paul Davies and David Hemsoll
5 The Medieval Vitruvius
Wim Verbaal
6 Alberti and Vitruvius: Reception and Rejection of the Model in De re aedificatoria
Martin McLaughlin
7 Verona and Vitruvius
Paul Davies and David Hemsoll
8 Vitruvius in Bramantes Rome: Recovery, Interpretation, and Use of the Ancient Text
Ann C. Huppert
9 Vitruvius Educational Program in Antiquity and the Renaissance
Daniel E. Harris-McCoy
10 Sangallo, Tolomei, and the Program of the Accademia de lo Studio de lArchitettura on Vitruvius and Ancient Architecture
Bernd Kulawik
11 Vitruvius and Guarino Guarini
Susan Klaiber
12 Hermosura and Belleza in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Editions of Vitruvius
Victor Deupi
13 Making Vitruvius Speak English: Vitruvius and English Architecture up to Vitruvius Britannicus
Vaughan Hart
14 Vitruvius in the German-Speaking World
Werner Oechslin
Part 4: Practice
15 Archaeological Perspectives on Vitruvius
Rabun Taylor
16 Vitruvius and Ancient Construction Method
Lynne C. Lancaster
17 How the opus francigenum Became the Gothic Style
Michel Paoli
18 Vitruvius and the Early Modern Worksite
David Karmon
19 Vitruvius and the Sangallos
Francesco Marcorin
20 Vitruvius and Palladio
Francesco Marcorin
21 Vitruvius and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns
Thomas Noble Howe
Part 5: Vitruvian Topics
22 Echeia
Robert Godman
23 Scamilli Impares
Thomas Noble Howe
24 Vitruvius Science of Machines: Tradition or Innovation?
Giovanni Di Pasquale
25 Vitruvius Historiae and the Love of Learning
Antonio Becchi
26 The Invention of the Vitruvian Man: Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci, and Beyond
Francesca Fiorani
Index
The book will appeal to a diverse range of constituencies, especially students and scholars of architectural history, art history, classical studies, and reception studies, and their institutions of higher learning.