Frommel Lombaerde
Cover: Raffaello Sanzio, Sposalizio della Vergine, 1504. Back cover: Arsenio Mascagni, Portrait of Cardinal-Archbishop Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, 1618.
A CHALLENGE FOR PAINTED ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY MODERN TIMES Architecture on Canvas and Fresco Painting
If specialists of painting look at figures — their movements and expressions — architectural scholars examine drawings and buildings. Yet the convergence of these two disciplines remains largely marginalized. The aims of the publication is to remedy this situation, covering a wide range from painted façades and interiors of buildings to representations of architecture on paintings and frescoes. The theme contributes to the breaking down of boundaries between imagination and realization in the field of architecture and favors a more profound understanding of the permeability of the two spheres. Many different approaches are addressed in this publication, including examples from the sixteenth century in Italy and The Netherlands and the early eighteenth-century in France and Britain. The contributions in this publication are arranged according to four main themes: The Temple of Solomon and the Old Testament, a favorite subject of the genre Architecturae Pictae; a second theme reflects on the significance that can be ascribed to architecture in paintings, some of which investigate theoretical concepts; a third theme treats a number of case studies in Italy, the Low Countries, France and Britain in terms of content and methodology; a final theme is focusing on the important patrons of new buildings and liked to see themselves immortalized in painted architecture.
ARCHITECTURAE PICTAE I
A CHALLENGE FOR PAINTED ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY MODERN TIMES Architecture on Canvas and Fresco Painting
edited by SABINE FROMMEL AND PIET LOMBAERDE
Since 2003, Sabine Frommel is Directeur d’études at the Chair of Renaissance Art History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres). She deals with the great architects of the Italian Renaissance, the evolution of architectural typologies and languages in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the birth and development of the discipline of architectural history. Since 2020 she is a correspondent member of the Académie des beaux-arts de Paris. Piet Lombaerde is emeritus professor in theory and history of architecture and urbanism at the University of Antwerp, faculty of design sciences. His research interests cover the history of fortifications (1500–1900), urban history and the history of hydraulics. He is co-editor with Krista De Jonge (KU Leuven) of the series Architectura Moderna and author of several books on the history and theory of architecture and urban planning.