The City Rehearsed: The Architectural Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries (Repost)
Christopher P. Heuer, "The City Rehearsed: The Architectural Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries"
English | ISBN: 0415433061 | 2009 | PDF | 312 pages | 14,4 mb
English | ISBN: 0415433061 | 2009 | PDF | 312 pages | 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 Rehearsed offers 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.