Early Modern Spaces in Motion: Design, Experience and Rhetoric

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Design, Experience and Rhetoric

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Edited by Kimberley Skelton

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: January 2023
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9789048544592
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544592

Subjects:: Art: General Interest, Art
Series:: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

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Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, rather than segmented, movement. New spaces that included vistas along house interiors and uninterrupted library reading rooms offered open expanses for shaping sequences of social behaviour, scientists observed how the Earth rotated around the sun, and philosophers attributed emotions to neural vibrations in the human brain. Early Modern Spaces in Motion; examines this increased emphasis on motion with eight essays encompassing a geographical span of Portugal to German-speaking lands and a disciplinary range from architectural history to English. It consequently merges longstanding strands of analysis considering people in motion and buildings in motion to explore the cultural historical attitudes underpinning the varied impacts of motion in early modern Europe.

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Design, Experience and Rhetoric

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Table of Contents
pp 5-6

List of Illustrations
pp 7-10

Acknowledgements
pp 11-12

Introduction: Bodies and Buildings in Motion
pp 13-32

1 - Navigating the Palace Underworld : Recreational Space, Pleasure, and Release at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent
pp 33-58

2 - Passages to Fantasy : The Performance of Motion in Celliniâs Fontainebleau Portal and the Galerie François I
pp 59-80

3 - The Catholic Country House in Early Modern England : Motion, Pietyand Hospitality, c. 1580â1640
pp 81-110

4 - Sensory Vibrations and Social Reform at San Michele a Ripa in Rome
pp 111-138

5 - The Rise of the Staircase: Motion in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Domestic Architecture
pp 139-162

6 - Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque
pp 163-188

7 - A Paper Tour of the Metropolis : The Architecture of Early Modern London in the Royal Magazine
pp 189-210

8 - Libraries in Motion: Forms of Movement in the Early Modern Library (1450-1770)
pp 211-236

Works Cited
pp 237-270

Index
pp 271-274

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