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Vitruvian Man
- Rome under Construction
Engelsk Hardback

Vitruvian Man

- Rome under Construction
Engelsk Hardback

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Professionalism is political. This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. Once reviled by scholars, Vitruvius emerges as an imperial expert par excellence when read alongside literary coevals through an intertextual lens. No building of Vitruvius'' name survives from antiquity, but his treatise remains a formidable literary construction that partakes of Rome''s vibrant textual culture. The book explores Vitruvius'' portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing "Vitruvian man" at the dawn of Augustus'' empire. In direct dialogue with his republican model, Cicero''s ideal orator, the architect embodies a distinctly imperial civic ethos in which technically skilled partisans supersede old elites as guarantors of Augustan authority. Vitruvius promises to shape not only the emperor''s legacy with architecture, but also the notion of a Roman citizen through his ideal architect.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780190696986
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190696982
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Udg. Dato:
14 nov 2019
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
243mm
Højde:
164mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
14 nov 2019
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