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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07986-1 — Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture Peter Fane-Saunders Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07986-1 — Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture Peter Fane-Saunders Index More Information INDEX Note: named buildings and other structures are entered under the relevant place name, e.g., Ephesus, Temple of Diana (Artemision); page numbers in italics refer to figures; notes are indicated by the page number followed by the note number, thus: 355n60 Abbondi, Antonio (“lo Scarpagnino”) De re aedificatoria 93–109, 348nn1,2 383n193 architectural ornamentum 105–7, 137, 138, Accademia della Virtù 172, 195, 196–7, 257 139, 162 Accademia Olimpica, Vicenza 378n81 column genera 156–7, 164, 167, 262, 317 Accademia Romana 55, 56, 77 column as ornamentum 317, 407n44 Accademia Venetiana 379n115 editio princeps 108–9 Acciaiuoli, Donato 61 house as microcosm of city 103, 217 Acciaiuoli, Jacopo 325n22 intended audience 95, 108–9, 349n13 acoustics 179–80 literary sources 94, 95, 315 Acta Sanctorum 48, 354n36 nature’s pleasure in circular forms 279 ad quadratum 257, 271, 273, 275, 280 Pliny as encyclopaedic tool 95–6 Adrian VI (pope) 285, 367n149 Pliny as expert on natural phenomena 318 aedile 20, 329n81 Pliny as “history of architecture” 96–105 Aemilius Paullus (Lucius Aemilius Paullus) 121 Pliny as source of architectural wonders 95–6 agriculture 3 on Rome’s architectural primacy 98–9, 101–5 Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius 7, 118, 126. See also as source for Sagredo 164 Rome, ancient monuments, Agrippa’s on specula (watchtower) 271 Ballot Office; Baths of Agrippa tailoring Plinian material to suit his argument founder of Pantheon 64, 80, 341n57 97, 100, 109, 314–15, 407n25 geographical commentaries 333n63 on unusual stones 95, 320 system of water supply 15, 19, 38, 63, 106 and varietas 94, 156, 317 alabaster 141, 147 Della famiglia 351n93 Albano 364n67 Della pittura 7, 116 tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii 272, 316, Descriptio urbis Romae 49, 62 397n151, 401n23 and Filarete 111, 112–13, 125–6 Alberti, Francesco d’Altobianco 94 and Hypnerotomachia 129, 139, 143–4 Alberti, Giovanni di Francesco d’Altobianco 94 Momus 350n43 Alberti, Leon Battista Profugiorum ab aerumna 101 architectural works Theogenius 349n34 Palazzo Rucellai 108, 341n62 Albertini, Francesco 67, 77, 89, 178 San Francesco (Tempio Malatestiano) 108, 190 Opusculum de mirabilibus novae et veteris urbis Romae San Pancrazio, Cappella Rucellai 108 67–8, 69 San Sebastiano 104, 108, 253 Albertus Magnus 131, 143 Santa Maria Novella 108, 190, 367n145 Aleria 4 Sant’Andrea 104, 108 Alexander Neckam 23, 331n121 and Bernardo Rucellai 61–2, 63, 64 Alexander the Great 12, 18, 118–20, 301, 303 copy of Naturalis historia 94, 349nn18,36, Palace of 114 350n38 Alexandria 18, 119–20, 178, 209, 244 and Daniele Barbaro 197, 199–200 Column of Pompey 241, 387n62 De equo animante 351n84 obelisk (brought by Ptolemy II Philadelphus) 237, De pictura 116 387n63 465 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07986-1 — Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture Peter Fane-Saunders Index More Information 466 INDEX Alexandria (cont.) architect Library 12 definition of 18–19, 97 Pharos (Lighthouse) 6, 13, 19, 21, 100, 134, 256, fame and talent in antiquity 121, 239. See also 314, 327n5, 328n20, 329n78, 331n116, fama; ingegnio, ingegno; ingenium 385n10 architectural excess. See luxuria temple dedicated to Arsinoë II 23, 232, 233, 235, architectural expense 14, 39, 49, 60, 61, 68, 98, 103, 238, 387nn63,64 108, 114, 120, 177, 303, 311, 351n91, Temple of Serapis 330n114 384n205 Alfonso V of Aragon 338n56, 389n99 architectural histories 15–16, 94, 96–9, 100–5, 200 Aliotti, Girolamo 3 architectural motifs. See compositional motifs Alvisio, Giovanni 323 architectural ornament. See ornamentum Amadeo, Giovanni Antonio 340n33 architectural patronage. See patronage amber 244, 388n99 architectural profession 18–19, 97, 111, 120, 147, Ammannati, Bartolomeo 303, 304, 381n149, 199, 314 404n100 architectural theory 93, 146, 161–2, 199–200, 219, Ammianus Marcellinus 33, 48, 53, 70, 351n94 316–18 Ampelinus, Basilius 152, 205, 248, 363n56 architectural vocabulary. See terminology amphitheatres 39, 59, 107, 122, 135, 139–41, 153, Architectural Wonders of the World 2, 6, 12–13, 188, 205, 206, 247, 377n66 135. See also Opera mirabilia in terris; Romae analemmata 213–14 miracula operum XVIII; Seven Wonders of Anatolia. See Asia Minor the World ancient Latin column (Composite) 167 architecture Ancona, Arch of Trajan 130 imitating nature 97, 102, 160–1 “andracine” (marble) 134, 360n57 as liberal art 1, 13, 97, 147, 192 Andrea, Zoan 186 taming nature 96–7, 98, 200 Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, the Elder 373n140 architectus 18, 20, 151, 232, 349n30, 387nn62,63 Angarano, Giacomo 224, 384n200 Aretino, Pietro 207 Anonymous Einsiedeln 57 Argonauts 22 Anthologia Palatina 12 Ariosto, Alessandro 244 anthracites (gemstone) 360n57 Aristotle 95, 173, 197, 199, 217, 238, 315, 374n13, anthropology 3 375n34 Antiochus 237 concept of magnificence 19, 102, 125 Antipater of Sidon 12 Nicomachean Ethics 357n152 antiquarian movement 55–6, 88, 89 Politics 103, 351n97 Antonietto delle Medaglie (Antonio Conteschi) Rhetorica 199 268, 396n132 Armenia 41, 139 Antoninus Pius 270 Arnold of Saxony 23 Apelles 21, 54, 147, 408n73 Arnolfo di Cambio 288 Apion 13 Arsinoë II 23, 387n63 Apuleius 160, 359n36 art 3, 54, 174. See also gem carving; ornamentum; aqua ardente 138 paintings/painters; sculpture/sculptors aqueducts 13, 15, 22, 29, 36, 38, 50, 53, 61, 98, 99, Artemisia 70, 107, 114, 134, 269, 298, 301, 306, 135, 162, 177, 350n42 372n131, 397n135, 403nn59,80, Aquilius, Gaius (Gaius Aquilius Gallus) 38 405nn104,112 Aquino, arch of 401n19 artifex 20, 232, 241, 242, 249, 314, 387n63 Arabian earth 95 artist Aragazzi, Bartolomeo 47 ability in antiquity 125, 147 archaeological evidence. See also compositional fame in antiquity 120–2. See also fama motifs Ashmole, Bernard 388nn89,93 classical texts as means of identifying ruins 49, Asia. See Asia Minor 56–7, 57–8, 62, 231, 237, 316 Asia Minor 12, 19, 22, 36, 40, 41, 42, 95, 100, 101, gap between text and reality 35, 49, 53–4, 313 143, 149, 200, 235, 237, 242, 311. See also relating Naturalis historia to ruins 42, 56–7, 65–6, Cyzicus; Ephesus; Halicarnassus 77–9, 80–1, 85–6, 167, 184, 230, 231, 232, Assyria 41 235–44, 257, 314, 316, 321 astronomy 214, 379n115. See also gnomones; horologia use in reconstructions on paper 206–7, 249–50, Athens 164, 178, 209, 234, 381n141 259, 262, 263–5, 266–7, 268, 270, 271, Choragic Monument of Lysicrates 234 272, 273, 277, 278, 279–80, 316 first temples on Acropolis 102 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07986-1 — Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture Peter Fane-Saunders Index More Information INDEX 467 Parthenon (Temple of “Pallas”; church of Maria Predica de i sogni 198, 375n28 Panaghia) 232, 235, 238–9, 240, 278, as Venetian envoy to Milanese court 370n26 387nn63,66,69, 388n74 Barbaro, Ermolao, the Younger 128 Street of Tripods 234 Castigationes plinianae et in Pomponium Melam “Temple of Apollo” 267 148–52, 155, 166–7, 320, 323 Tower of the Winds 136, 176, 232, 316, 385n19 copy owned by Castiglione 162 atizoe (gemstone) 139 on “didoron” brick 149, 155, 181, 201 atria 9, 37, 63, 64, 85, 103, 160, 192, 193, 214–18, praised for his prose style 199 220–5, 334n106, 346n55, 356n109, solution to operation of Curio’s rotating 381nn146,149, 382nn154,163, 383n195, theatres 151–2, 203, 205, 208, 248, 279, 391n52 378n73 atriolum 85, 347n58 on Temple of Diana at Ephesus 149, 150–1 Attendo, Pietro di Andrea 303 textual emendations to Pliny 148–51, Attic column 17, 146, 155–66, 167–8, 173, 182–6, 362n22 196, 202–3, 218, 219, 225, 318, 365n106, use of Vitruvius 148–51, 315 367nn145,159, 369nn189,190, 370n15, in Milan 173 371n108, 372n115, 374nn2,6, 377n57, Barbo, Pietro (cardinal). See Paul II (pope) 384n212, 408nn54,55 Baroque architecture 8 Attwood, Philip 280 Bartholomew the Englishman (Bartholomaeus Augustine, De civitate Dei 38, 128 Anglicus) 24 Augustus 7, 37, 49, 50, 53, 65, 69, 71, 121, 210, 291, barycephalus column 156, 157, 364n89 322, 333nn63,66 Barzizza, Gasparino 326n24 Aurelian 34 Basilio dalla Scola 363n56 Aurispa, Giovanni 115, 230 Basilio della Vigna 363n56 avaritia 6, 44, 315 Bassiano, Alessandro 405n103 Averlino, Antonio di Pietro. See Filarete (Antonio Basternae (tribe) 41, 335n134 di Pietro Averlino) Baths of Apollonius of Tyana 22 Avogaro, Pietro Donato 339n9 Battagio, Giovanni 190 awnings 107, 363n50 Beagon, Mary 8, 132 Beaufort, Henry (cardinal) 48 Babylon 316 Beccadelli, Antonio 3 Hanging Gardens 6, 12, 14, 176, 331n115 Bellerophon, floating statue of 23, 244, 389n100 Walls 12, 256 Belli, Valerio 280, 297 baluster column 156, 166, 368nn166,179 Bellincioni, Bernardo 246, 247 Bambalione family 404n94 Benali, Bernardino 323 Bande Nere, Giovanni delle. See Medici, Giovanni Benevento, Arch of Trajan 308 de’ (Giovanni delle Bande Nere) Benvenuto della Volpaia 381n140 Bandinelli, Baccio 283–4, 285, 287, 288, 401n10, Berga, Vicenza, theatre at 206–7, 378nn78,80 404n100 Bergamo 306 Bandini, Domenico 332n20 Cappella Colleoni 373n142 Barattolo, Andrea 388n93 Cathedral 120 Barbaro, Daniele 8, 87 Berlin 234, 299 collaboration with Palladio 197, 206–7, 214–15, Bernardo della Volpaia 342n70 217–18 Bernini, Gian Lorenzo 404n88 De horologiis describendis libellus 210 Beroaldo, Filippo, the Elder 173, 323, 362n18 Dieci libri dell’architettura 196–218, 225–6, 315, Berones (tribe)
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