Vitruvian man: Rome under construction

by Oksanish, John

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Full title :Vitruvian man : Rome under construction / John Oksanish.

Summary

"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. Vitruvian Man's radical reappraisal of a poorly understood Roman author will be valuable to all scholars of classics and architectural history."--from jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 251 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190696986, 0190696982
oclc:on1096288180
LC Classification:NA340.V5
Dewey Decimal:722.7092

Subjects

Architecture Architecture -- Histoire. -- Italie Architecture -- History. -- Italy Architektur De architectura (Vitruvius Pollio) History Italy Römisches Reich Vitruvius Vitruvius Pollio