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STUDY OF GIACOMO BAROZZI DA VIGNOLA AND HIS AGE : HISTORY OF EVALUATION ON VIGNOLA

1977; Architectural Institute of Japan; Volume: 252; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3130/aijsaxx.252.0_121

2433-0035

SHIGETAKE NAGAO,

Architecture and Art History Studies

The purpose of this article is to reevaluate Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, by reviewing the various evaluations made by his contemporaries and by the later generations. Vignola's contemporaries, Vasari, Ammanati, Palladio and Danti regarded him as the best architect of his age. In short, these evaluations were ascribed especially to his three architectural masterpieces, Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, Villa Giulia and II Gesu at Roma and to his famous treatise of five orders, "La Regola delli Cinque Ordini d'Architettura", the best-seller of architectural treatises because it had been avery useful text for the students till this century. Vignola's influence had spread mainly through his book all over Europe above all in Italy and France. The first opposion to his work came from Milizia in the last half of the eighteenth century. But more important is the final opposition to Vignola which occured in our century from the point of view of modern architects, for example Le Corbusier, because for the last four centuries, Vignola seemed to have been a symbol of architectural authority and classical tradition after the Renaissance period.