Platonic Love

by Thomas Gould

The architectural facade -- a crucial and ubiquitous element of traditional cityscapes -- addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying or dissembling interior arrangements. Burroughs traces the development of the Italian Renaissance palace facade as a cultural, architectural and spatial phenomenon, and as a new way of setting a limit to and defining a private sphere. He draws on literary evidence and analyses of significant Renaissance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313225206
• ISBN13: 9780313225208
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.