Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence

by Marvin Trachtenberg

Book Overview

Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art and Power in Early Modern Florence radically revises our ideas about the origins of rationally planned public space in the European city. Through a spatial and historical analysis of the major squares of Florence, all built in the Trecento, together with primary civic monuments, Marvin Trachtenberg shows that, contrary to current belief, Florentine planners engaged in a theoretically sophisticated mode of practice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521728258
• ISBN13: 9780521728256
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 2.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.9"