Author and audience in Vitruvius' De architectura PDF
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’ AUTHOR AND AUDIENCE IN VITRUVIUS DE ARCHITECTURA Vitruvius’Dearchitecturaistheonlyextantclassicaltextonarchitec- ture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinciiswellknown.Butwhatwasthetext’spurposeinitsowntime (ca.s)?Inthisbook,MardenFitzpatrickNicholsrevealshow Vitruvius pitched the Greek discipline of architecture to his Roman readers,mostofwhomwereundoubtedlylaymen.Theinaccuracyof Vitruvius’architecturalrules,whencomparedwithsurvivingancient buildings,hasknockedVitruviusoffhispedestal.Nicholsarguesthat theauthorneverintendedtoprovideanaccurateviewofcontempor- ary buildings. Instead, Vitruvius crafted his authorial persona and remarksonarchitecturetoappealtoelites(andwould-beelites)eager to secure their positions within an expanding empire. In this major new analysis of De architectura from archaeological and literary perspectives, Vitruvius emerges as a knowing critic of a social land- scape in which thehouse madethe man. is Assistant Professor of Classics atGeorgetownUniversity,Washington,DC.Sheworksprimarilyon theliterature, art and culture ofancient Rome. Editors . , University ofMichigan ś ,CorpusChristi College, Oxford ,University ofCambridge , King’sCollegeLondon TheGreekcultureoftheRomanEmpireoffersarichfieldofstudy.Extraordinary insights can be gained into processes of multicultural contact and exchange, politicalandideologicalconflict,andthecreativityofachanging,polyglotempire. Duringthisperiod,manyfundamentalelementsofWesternsocietywerebeingset in place: from the rise of Christianity, to an influential system of education, to long-livedartisticcanons.ThisseriesisthefirsttofocusontheresponseofGreek culture to its Roman imperial setting as a significant phenomenon in its own right. 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ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©MardenFitzpatrickNichols Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. 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