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Free Download Christopher P. Heuer, "The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries"
English | 2008 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 0415433061, 0415542324 | PDF | 14,4 mb
The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the production of imaginary architecture. Painter, architect, rhetorician, perspective theorist, festival designer, and draughtsman, Vredeman was active in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Prague, where he designed a mysterious body of architectural prints, works which by the seventeenth century had influenced buildings from Tallinn to Peru.Vredeman's strange publications were among the most widely-distributed "Renaissance" books on building and vision, shipped to England, Spain and even Mexico by 1600.The City Rehearsedoffers an entirely new perspective on Vredeman and printed architecture in early modern Europe. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.