Reconstructing Francesco Di Giorgio, Architect

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Reconstructing Francesco Di Giorgio, Architect is written by Berthold Hub and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 363157584X (ISBN 10) and 9783631575840 (ISBN 13).

Francesco di Giorgio Martini is one of the few fifteenth century Sienese artists who became known outside his native city. Working at the courts of Urbino, Naples and Milan, he was a typical Renaissance uomo universale but his major achievements were in military and civil architecture, complemented by the composition of a theoretical treatise. The collection of essays does not offer a comprehensive study of the artist's architectural oeuvre, but rather emphasizes the partial nature of the scholarly endeavor so far undertaken. The essays discuss Francesco's theory, his drawings from the antique, the individual characteristics of his practice, and the reception of his work. They share a common idea: invention, which emerges as a valid theoretical framework, possibly the only one capable of encompassing Francesco di Giorgio's versatile accomplishments.