Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009422536 |
| ISBN10: | 1009422537 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 476 pages |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
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The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science
Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 19 December 2024
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Short description:
This book exposes how artist-architects from D&&&252;rer to Rubens inspired modern empirical philosophy and science.
Long description:
The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation explores how architectural media came to propel scientific discourse between the eras of D&&&252;rer and of Rubens. It is also the first English-language book to feature the polymathic, eccentric, and long-misunderstood artist Wendel Dietterlin (c. 1550-1599). Here, Elizabeth J. Petcu reveals how architectural paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints became hotbeds of early modern empiricism, the idea that knowledge derives from sensory experience. She demonstrates how Dietterlin's empirical imagery of architecture came into dialogue with the image-making practices of early modern scientists, a rapport that foreshadowed the intimate relationships between architecture and science today. Petcu's astute insights offer historians of art, science, and architecture a new framework for understanding the role of architectural images in the foundations of modern science. She also provides a coherent narrative regarding the interplay between early modern art, architecture, and science as a catalyst for modern empirical philosophy.
'In this immensely learned and beautifully illustrated book, Elizabeth J. Petcu reveals the vast ambitions and stunning virtuosity of Wendel Dietterlin's architectural images. Petcu illuminates the protean nature of Dietterlin's work as he strove to realize for architecture the prestige and potential of artistic and natural philosophical inquiry. Working in the creative hothouse of Strasbourg with its unfettered experimentation by artisans and printers, Dietterlin raised architectural image-making to new epistemic status. The book is also a demonstration of Petcu's own virtuosity and the remarkable versatility of her scholarship - crossing languages, fields, and vast realms of scholarship with ease. Like its protagonist, her book is endlessly inventive.' Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University
'In this immensely learned and beautifully illustrated book, Elizabeth J. Petcu reveals the vast ambitions and stunning virtuosity of Wendel Dietterlin's architectural images. Petcu illuminates the protean nature of Dietterlin's work as he strove to realize for architecture the prestige and potential of artistic and natural philosophical inquiry. Working in the creative hothouse of Strasbourg with its unfettered experimentation by artisans and printers, Dietterlin raised architectural image-making to new epistemic status. The book is also a demonstration of Petcu's own virtuosity and the remarkable versatility of her scholarship - crossing languages, fields, and vast realms of scholarship with ease. Like its protagonist, her book is endlessly inventive.' Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University
Table of Contents:
Editorial note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the renaissance of architecture as art and science; 1. Architecture's figural turn; 2. Devising the Architectura: rationalism and empiricism in architectural design; 3. Drafting the Architectura: drawing as research in art, architecture, and science; 4. Printing the Architectura: architectural etching becomes alchemical inquiry; 5. Dissecting the Architectura: anatomy, ornament, and the limits of figuration; 6. Deconstructing the Architectura: enduring matter and transient forms in Peru; Conclusion: the death and the life of the architectural image; Selective bibliography; Index.