TY  - BOOK
AU  - Onians,John
TI  - Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance 
SN  - 9780691221953
AV  - NA2815 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Orders
KW  - Architecture, Ancient
KW  - Architecture, Medieval
KW  - Architecture, Renaissance
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aachen, palace chape
KW  - Aeolic order
KW  - Alessi, Galeazzo
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Attic columns
KW  - Barbadori family
KW  - Benavides, Marco
KW  - Borgo San Sepolcro
KW  - Bramante, Donato
KW  - Caesar, Julius
KW  - Callimachus
KW  - Cellini, Benvenuto
KW  - Christ
KW  - Cicero
KW  - Composite order
KW  - Corinthian order
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Dorians
KW  - Doric order
KW  - Egypt
KW  - El Djem (Thysdrus)
KW  - Etruria
KW  - Flavians
KW  - Florence
KW  - Francis I
KW  - Franks
KW  - Genoa
KW  - Gonzaga, Federigo
KW  - Herodotus
KW  - Honorius of Autun
KW  - Leonardo da Vinci
KW  - Manetti, Giannozzo
KW  - Ottomans
KW  - Pergamum
KW  - Plato
KW  - Poliphilus
KW  - anthropomorphism
KW  - architects
KW  - clergy and laity
KW  - craftsmen
KW  - emotions
KW  - encyclopaedias
KW  - etymologies
KW  - exempla
KW  - festivitas
KW  - government
KW  - inscriptions
KW  - letters
KW  - licence
KW  - maniera
KW  - music and architecture
KW  - paintings
KW  - quadratura
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; I Classical Greece --; II The Hellenistic world and the Roman Republic --; III Vitruvius --; IV The Roman Empire --; V Early Christianity --; VI The column in the Christian Middle Ages --; VII The orders in the Christian Middle Ages --; VIII The crisis of architecture: Medieval and Renaissance --; IX The Tuscan Renaissance --; X Alberti --; XI Filarete --; XII Francesco di Giorgio Martini --; XIII Architects and theories in the later fifteenth century --; XIV A new Christian architecture --; XV Francesco Colonna --; XVI Luca Pacioli --; XVII Bramante --; XVIII Raphael --; XIX Serlio --; XX Serlio's Venice: Sansovino, Aretino, Titian, and Vasari --; XXI Sixteenth-century choices --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,000 years from their first appearance in ancient Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the orders--the columns and capitals known as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite--were made to serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221953
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691221953
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691221953/original
ER  -