Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius - (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This collection of 26 original essays by an international team of leading scholars investigates the influence and reception of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day.

Book Synopsis

As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.

Review Quotes

"Vitruvius is to architects as Hippocrates is to medical doctors. Yet the Roman author of De architectura, the only work on architecture to have survived from classical antiquity, and father as such of the architectural profession has not always received academic attention commensurate with his standing among architects. The publication of Brill's companion to the reception of Vitruvius is a significant corrective and much-anticipated cause for celebration. [...] anyone interested in learning about Vitruvius, or any scholar seeking a single volume of essays by reputable authorities on an impressive range of Vitruvian topics would be wrong not to begin with this unique collection." - Indra Kagis McEwen, in: BMCR, 2024.11.22

About the Author

Ingrid D. Rowland lives in Rome, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely, including a translation of Vitruvius (Cambridge 1999; with Thomas Howe). She won the inaugural Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021.

Sinclair W. Bell lives in Chicago. He is the editor of several volumes concerned with the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Italy, and previously served as Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.

Contributors are: Antonio Becchi, Paul Davies, Victor Deupi, Francesca Fiorani, Rob Godman, Jessica Gritti, Daniel Harris-McCoy, Vaughan Hart, David Hemsoll, David Karmon, omas Noble Howe, Ann C. Huppert, Susan Klaiber, Bernd Kulawik, Lynne Lancaster, Francesco Marcorin, Martin McLaughlin, Werner Oechslin, Michel Paoli, Giovanni Di Pasquale, Alessandro Rovetta, Rabun Taylor, Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro, Wim Verbaal.