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Taylor & Francis Reformations From High Renaissance To Mannerism In The New West Of Religious Contention And Colonial Expansion by Christopher Tadgell
The rediscovery of classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists, architects and theorists of late fithteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy led to the cultural peak characterised as the High Renaissance. This fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series begins with a definition of Mannerism in art and architecture, the seminal development from the High Renaissance and the Baroque, associated with such dominant figures as Raphael, Michelangelo, Vignola, Giulio Romano and Palladio.
The political context within which Mannerism and its variants developed - from the Reformation to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, a period of devastating religious strife and territorial contention - is outlined before the major figures and achievements of Italian architecture in the period are dealt with in great depth and breadth. The focus then moves to France and architects and thinkers such as Pierre Lescot, Philibert de l'Orme, J.A. du Cerceau and Salomon de Brosse. These t