Word: architecturee
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While some historians try to reconstruct past events using written documents and reports, one Harvard architecture historian is bringing back the past physically.
Professor of the History of Architecture Howard Burns of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) is directing a project based out of a museum in Mantua, Italy, designed to recontruct a full-scale model of an early Renaissance Italian architect's home. Using only 16th-century documents, a few drawings...
"It was really exciting, because you saw something that hadn't existed for one doesn't know how many years rising before you. It jumped out from being a two-dimensional drawing to an impressive piece of Renaissance architecture that we had created," Burns says.
Cordibella says he hopes the GSD will work on other studies related to Mantuan architecture, such as a survey of the Duco Palace, which is centuries old and is the product of several great Italian architects.
To the 17th century the classical world was the locus of ideal beauty, but how did a Frenchman enter it? A writer could read Vergil without leaving Paris, but a painter had to go to Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was...