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Timeless cities: an architect's reflections on renaissance Italy

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In this book, architect David Mayernik reveals how Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect's tour of these five cities and describes the cultural beliefs and ideas behind the buildings..

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720.945 MAY t

Z. HANDIMAN

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720.945 MAY t

Publisher

Colorado : Westview Press., 2003

Collation

274p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8133-6592-9

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720.945

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Subject(s)

ARCHITECTURE, RENNAISANCE - ITALY

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