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Review: Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo

2021; University of California Press; Volume: 80; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2021.80.3.350

2150-5926

Ian Campbell,

Historical Art and Architecture Studies

Book Review| September 01 2021 Review: Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo David Hemsoll Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019, 352 pp., 300 illus. $75 (cloth), ISBN 9780300225761 Ian Campbell Ian Campbell University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2021) 80 (3): 350–352. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.3.350 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ian Campbell; Review: Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2021; 80 (3): 350–352. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.3.350 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search At first sight David Hemsoll's claim that Emulating Antiquity is “the first [book] in any language to be devoted to the unfolding of Renaissance architecture's engagement with antiquity” (13) seems startling. Surely examining that engagement is what most of us in the field do all the time. But, on reflection, it becomes apparent that, although this issue is addressed piecemeal in much Renaissance architectural history, often it is only one aspect among others or is merely taken for granted and not foregrounded. In this book Hemsoll does not attempt a comprehensive overview but instead engages with and challenges Giorgio Vasari's quasi-canonical narrative of the development of Renaissance architecture. Focusing on five key architects—Filippo Brunelleschi, Giuliano da Sangallo, Donato Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo—he relegates figures such as Francesco di Giorgio, Baldassare Peruzzi, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger to incidental roles. However, what the book may lack in breadth is more... You do not currently have access to this content.