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portada God’S own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
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Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780262047746

God’S own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century

Karl Kinsella (Author) · The Mit Press · Hardcover

God’S own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century - Karl Kinsella

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Synopsis "God’S own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century "

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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