基本説明
名著『近代建築の歴史』への重要な接続を成す著作の英訳（第２版）、２４年ぶりの復刊。
Leonardo Benevolo used the term 'architecture of the Renaissance' to indicate the cycle of experiments commencing in Florence in the early fifteenth century adn whith repidly spread throughout the world.
Full Description
This extensively illustrated study opens with an account of the movement's founders: Brunelleschi, arbiter of Florence's building problems, and Alberti, who supplied the new architecture with a suitable theoretical foundation. The editor considers the general effect of the new artistic culture on the changes that took place first in fifteenth-century Italian cities and then throughout Europe.
The relationship between the development of architecture and that of other related fields, especially the great advances in painting and sculpture, receives special attention. Also considered are the effects of the beginnings of modern science and the general economic and social changes of the age. Finally this study takes the reader to the point where the history of modern architecture, discussed in volumes of the same name by Professor Benevolo, begins.
Contents
Volume I 1. The Inventors of the New Architecture 2. Towards the Ideal City 3. Beginning and End of the 'Third Style' 4. Urban Changes in the Sixteenth Century Volume II 5. The Crisis of Sensibility 6. The Grand Siecle 7. Court Classicism and Bourgeois Classicism in the Growth of the Modern City Conclusion: 1750 - the Turning-point
