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16. Die Architektur der Renaissance und des Manierismus

  • Anke Naujokat
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Handbuch Rhetorik der Bildenden Künste
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Abstract

Renaissance architects and patrons consciously made use of the persuasive effect of a building. In an environment of private and public rivalry architecture was an important means of self-presentation, displaying power and wealth as well as political and religious affiliation. Trained as a humanist, Leon Battista Alberti introduced the doctrines of classical rhetoric into Early Renaissance architecture. His building program for the Florentine merchant Giovanni Rucellai illustrates how he adopted rhetorical methods and categories to structure the architectural design process and to select adequate means of architectural expression. In sixteenth-century Italy, based on the reinterpretation of Vitruvius, the rhetorical ideal of decorum determined the canonical use of the classical orders, which were supposed to express architectural hierarchy. While High Renaissance architects acted as translators using Vitruvian rhetoric to transfer readable meaning to any architectural element, mannerist architecture gained its expressive power by deliberately breaking the established rules of Vitruvianism. Classical rhetoric again served as a guide, now demonstrating how fiction and mystification can create a deeper understanding of reality.

Abstract

Renaissance architects and patrons consciously made use of the persuasive effect of a building. In an environment of private and public rivalry architecture was an important means of self-presentation, displaying power and wealth as well as political and religious affiliation. Trained as a humanist, Leon Battista Alberti introduced the doctrines of classical rhetoric into Early Renaissance architecture. His building program for the Florentine merchant Giovanni Rucellai illustrates how he adopted rhetorical methods and categories to structure the architectural design process and to select adequate means of architectural expression. In sixteenth-century Italy, based on the reinterpretation of Vitruvius, the rhetorical ideal of decorum determined the canonical use of the classical orders, which were supposed to express architectural hierarchy. While High Renaissance architects acted as translators using Vitruvian rhetoric to transfer readable meaning to any architectural element, mannerist architecture gained its expressive power by deliberately breaking the established rules of Vitruvianism. Classical rhetoric again served as a guide, now demonstrating how fiction and mystification can create a deeper understanding of reality.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber V
  3. Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
  4. Abkürzungsverzeichnis XI
  5. 0. Einführung 1
  6. Grundlegung
  7. 1. Ut pictura poesis 45
  8. 2. Die Gattung der Ekphrasis 63
  9. Antike
  10. 3. Künstler und Gesellschaft in der Antike 91
  11. 4. Rhetorik und Kunsttheorie in der Antike 111
  12. 5. Die Rhetorik der griechischen Skulptur 125
  13. Mittelalter
  14. 6. Künstler und Gesellschaft im Mittelalter 151
  15. 7. Kunst, Kunsttheorie und Rhetorik im Mittelalter 169
  16. 8. Rhetoric and Artistry in Early Byzantium 185
  17. 9. Giotto di Bondone 207
  18. Renaissance und Manierismus
  19. 10. Künstler und Gesellschaft in Renaissance und Manierismus 229
  20. 11. Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): De Pictura 253
  21. 12. Giorgio Vasaris Vite 269
  22. 13. Der Paragone 283
  23. 14. Die Malerei der Renaissance und des Manierismus 313
  24. 15. Die Skulptur der Renaissance und des Manierismus 337
  25. 16. Die Architektur der Renaissance und des Manierismus 367
  26. 17. Die Grafik der Renaissance und des Manierismus 389
  27. Barock und Klassizismus
  28. 18. Künstler und Gesellschaft im Barock 417
  29. 19. Die Kunsttheorie des Barock 435
  30. 20. Die Kunsttheorie des Klassizismus 451
  31. 21. Die Malerei des Barock 471
  32. 22. Barocke Deckenmalerei 495
  33. 23. Die Skulptur des Barock und Rokoko 513
  34. 24. Barockarchitektur und Rhetorik: Das Berliner Schloss 535
  35. 25. Die Allegorie 555
  36. 26. Barocke Thesenblätter 577
  37. 27. Das Erhabene 595
  38. Moderne und Postmoderne
  39. 28. Künstler und Gesellschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne 631
  40. 29. Die Ästhetik 657
  41. 30. Spuren der Rhetorik in romantischen Entwürfen einer Theorie der bildenden Künste 671
  42. 31. Die Gegenwart unter dem Versprechen künftiger Epiphanie. Baudelaire und Apollinaire über die Moderne als sich selbst unbekannte Epoche 691
  43. 32. Die Kunstgeschichte 711
  44. 33. Malerei als politisches Medium: David, Goya, Delacroix, Courbet 729
  45. 34. Die Rhetorik des Denkmals 749
  46. 35. Die Karikatur 773
  47. 36. Zur Rhetorik in der Kunst der Postmoderne 797
  48. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger 819
  49. Abbildungsnachweise 825
  50. Index 829
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