Chapter Seven Formats and Functions of Large-Scale Calligraphy in Late-Ming and Qing-Period China and the Reconstruction of Architectural Spaces

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter One Rewriting the Fables: Filarete and Ancient Descriptions of Near Eastern Architecture 7
5. Chapter Two Difficulties in understanding Vitruvius 43
6. Chapter Three Sources, Method, Understanding and Misunderstanding in Fra Giocondo’s Vitruvius 89
7. Chapter Four Tracing Renaissance Italian Architectural Books in Colonial Mexico 111
8. Chapter Five Conjuring up the Wonders: from text to image 137
9. Chapter Six Twisted Words and Borrowed Wisdom: Misleading Citation in Scamozzi’s Idea della architettura universale (1615) 171
10. Chapter Seven Formats and Functions of Large-Scale Calligraphy in Late-Ming and Qing-Period China and the Reconstruction of Architectural Spaces 199
11. Chapter Eight Pirro Ligorio, the ‘Megala’ Ship and the Cortile Del Belvedere 235
12. Chapter Nine Invention, Imitation and Reiteration: The Case of Bramante’s So-Called Palazzo Caprini and its Progeny 253
13. Chapter Ten ‘Citing from Memory’: Centralized Models and Basilica Plans in Venice of the Early Counter-Reformation 295
14. Chapter Eleven Old Forms with New Functions: Villa Emo and the Amtshaus Wörlitz 311
15. Chapter Twelve Found and Reshaped in Translation: Architectural Models from the Centre to the Periphery 347
16. List of Contributors 379
17. Index 381