Renaissance Bologna: A Study in Architectural Form and Content

by Naomi Miller

This book offers a fresh approach to the study of Renaissance architecture and urban history by focussing on the imagery of the civic institutions of Bologna - those devoted to religion, government, law, commerce, welfare, and learning. The first part deals with the site and the urban determinants of the medieval city-state that constitute the structure of the future city. The second part concentrates on the forms of individual buildings as visual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820408859
• ISBN13: 9780820408859
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.