Date:
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Translating architecture
Renaissance architecture offers a series of particularly clear examples of cultural hybridization, since it is a collective art form and one that is shaped more strongly than others by local conditions (climate and materials as well as mentalities). This lecture will discuss the interaction between the Classical and the Gothic in churches and palaces from in Italy and elsewhere, and also the rise of local ecotypes as Renaissance forms spread through Europe and the New World, assisted by the migration of artisans and the dissemination of treatises on architecture, often in translation.