The Art of Building in the Classical World : Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture

by: Senseney, J.R.

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This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively determined concepts about the world. He argues that the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic construction determined principles that shaped the massing, special qualities, and refinements of buildings and the manner in which order itself was envisioned.

Features new analyses of the ancient blueprints at Didyma, the design process of curvature in the Parthenon, and the Greek origins of linear perspective and scale ground plans
Describes how Greek architects influenced classical thought
Includes discussions of Plato's relationship to pictorial representation

Table of Contents
Introduction: challenges of analysis and interpretation
1. The ideas of architecture
2. Vision and spatial representation
3. The genesis of scale drawing and linear perspective
4. Architectural vision
Excursus: envisioning cosmic mechanism in Plato and Vitruvius
Appendix A: analysis of the dimensions of the blueprint for entasis at Didyma
Appendix B: analysis of the hypothetical working drawing for platform curvature at Segesta
Appendix C: analysis of the hypothetical working drawing for platform curvature in the Parthenon.

The Art of Building in the Classical World : Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture

by: Senseney, J.R.

• ISBN-13: 9781107002357 / 978-1-107-00235-7
• ISBN-03: 1107002354 / 1-107-00235-4
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011

Price: 77,00 EURO

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A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus : The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c. 1600-300 BC

by: Steele, P.M.

• ISBN-13: 9781107617414 / 978-1-107-61741-4
• ISBN-03: 1107617413 / 1-107-61741-3
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017

Price: 34,60 EURO

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Out of One, Many : Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

by: Roberts, J.T.

• ISBN-13: 9780691181479 / 978-0-691-18147-9
• ISBN-03: 0691181470 / 0-691-18147-0
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2024

Price: 39,00 EURO

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Epigrammata : Greek Inscriptions in Verse : From the Beginnings to the Persian Wars

by: Friedlander, P. Hoffleit, H.B.

• ISBN-13: 9780890054765 / 978-0-89005-476-5
• ISBN-03: 0890054762 / 0-89005-476-2
• Ares Publishers, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1987

Price: 28,00 EURO

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Η ΡΩΜΗ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΟΙ : Η ΣΥΓΡΟΥΣΗ ΠΟΥ ΔΙΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΕ ΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ

by: ΤΣΕΡΕΒΕΛΑΚΗΣ, Γ.Τ.

• ISBN-13: 9789609333559 / 978-960-93-3355-9
• ISBN-03: 9609333559 / 960-93-3355-9
• Historical Quest, ΑΘΗΝΑ / Athens, 2011

Moesia Superior: Eine Provinz an der mittleren Donau

by: Mirkovic, M.

• ISBN-13: 9783805337823
• ISBN-03: 3805337825
• Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2007