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God’s Own Language

- Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century
Af: Karl Kinsella Engelsk Hardback

God’s Own Language

- Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century
Af: Karl Kinsella Engelsk Hardback
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How modern architectural language was invented to communicate with the divine—challenging a common narrative of European architectural history.

The architectural drawing might seem to be a quintessentially modern form, and indeed many histories of the genre begin in the early modern period with Italian Renaissance architects such as Alberti. Yet the Middle Ages also had a remarkably sophisticated way of drawing and writing about architecture. God’s Own Language takes us to twelfth-century Paris, where a Scottish monk named Richard of Saint Victor, along with his mentor Hugh, developed an innovative visual and textual architectural language. In the process, he devised techniques and terms that we still use today, from sectional elevations to the word “plan.”

Surprisingly, however, Richard’s detailed drawings appeared not in an architectural treatise but in a widely circulated set of biblical commentaries. Seeing architecture as a way of communicating with the divine, Richard drew plans and elevations for such biblical constructions as Noah’s ark and the temple envisioned by the prophet Ezekiel. Interpreting Richard and Hugh’s drawings and writings within the context of the thriving theological and intellectual cultures of medieval Paris, Karl Kinsella argues that the popularity of these works suggests that, centuries before the Renaissance, there was a large circle of readers with a highly developed understanding of geometry and the visual language of architecture.
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How modern architectural language was invented to communicate with the divine—challenging a common narrative of European architectural history.

The architectural drawing might seem to be a quintessentially modern form, and indeed many histories of the genre begin in the early modern period with Italian Renaissance architects such as Alberti. Yet the Middle Ages also had a remarkably sophisticated way of drawing and writing about architecture. God’s Own Language takes us to twelfth-century Paris, where a Scottish monk named Richard of Saint Victor, along with his mentor Hugh, developed an innovative visual and textual architectural language. In the process, he devised techniques and terms that we still use today, from sectional elevations to the word “plan.”

Surprisingly, however, Richard’s detailed drawings appeared not in an architectural treatise but in a widely circulated set of biblical commentaries. Seeing architecture as a way of communicating with the divine, Richard drew plans and elevations for such biblical constructions as Noah’s ark and the temple envisioned by the prophet Ezekiel. Interpreting Richard and Hugh’s drawings and writings within the context of the thriving theological and intellectual cultures of medieval Paris, Karl Kinsella argues that the popularity of these works suggests that, centuries before the Renaissance, there was a large circle of readers with a highly developed understanding of geometry and the visual language of architecture.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9780262047746
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0262047748
Kategori: Arkitektur
Udg. Dato: 13 jun 2023
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 166mm
Højde: 249mm
Forlag: MIT Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 13 jun 2023
Forfatter(e): Karl Kinsella
Forfatter(e) Karl Kinsella

Kategori Arkitektur

ISBN-13 9780262047746

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 166mm

Højde 249mm

Udg. Dato 13 jun 2023

Oplagsdato 13 jun 2023

Forlag MIT Press Ltd