Book contents
- Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance
- Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One A Sense of Renaissance Architecture
- Two Architecture and the Imagination
- Three Movement in the Built Environment
- Four The Building of Devotion
- Five Sensations of Health and Illness
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
Two - Architecture and the Imagination
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2021
Book contents
- Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance
- Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One A Sense of Renaissance Architecture
- Two Architecture and the Imagination
- Three Movement in the Built Environment
- Four The Building of Devotion
- Five Sensations of Health and Illness
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
Summary
What was the Renaissance understanding of the intersection of architecture, the senses, and the imagination? This chapter explores a range of historical and contemporary theoretical approaches to consider the relationship between the external environment and subjective experience, and concludes with the discussion of two seminal early modern texts on the psychology of space, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499 and La Petite Maison of 1758.
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- Architecture and the Senses in the Italian RenaissanceThe Varieties of Architectural Experience, pp. 29 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021