Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

Abstract

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Classical Greece 2. The Hellenistic world and the Roman Republic 3. Vitruvius 4. The Roman Empire 5. Early Christianity 6. The column in the Christian Middle Ages 7. The orders in the Christian Middle Ages 8. The crisis of architecture: Medieval and Renaissance 9. The Tuscan Renaissance 10. Alberti 11. Filarete 12. Francesco de Giorgio Martini 13. Architects and theories in the later fifteenth century 14. A new Christian architecture 15. Francesco Colonna 16. Luca Pacioli 17. Bramante 18. Raphael 19. Serlio 20. Serlio's Venice: Sansovino, Aretino, Titian, and Vasari 21. Sixteenth-century choices Notes Bibliography Index