References and bibliography

 

 

Leon Battista Alberti, Descriptio Urbis Romae. édition critique, traduction et commentaire par Martine Furno et Mario Carpo, Geneva: Droz, 2000 . (“Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance”, vol.  56).

 

Walter Benjamin,  L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproduction mécanisée, 1936. Reprinted in écrits français. Edited by J.-M. Monnoyer, 117-192. Paris: Gallimard, 1991.  The Work of Art in the Age of Mechnical Reproduction, in  Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Translated by Harry Zohn. Edited by Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.

 

Mario Carpo,  Architecture in the Age of Printing.  Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory, Cambridge, MA, and London, England: The MIT Press, 2001. 

 

Mario Carpo, “How do You Imitate a Building That You Have Never Seen? Printed Images, ancient models, and handmade drawings in Renaissance architectural theory”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 64, 2 (2001): 223-234.

 

Alfred W. Crosby, The Measure of Reality. Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

 

William Ivins, Jr. Prints and Visual Communication.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. Reprint, The MIT Press, 1992.

 

Alexandre Koyré, "Du monde de l''à peu près' à l'univers de la précision," Critique 28 (1948); reprinted in  Etudes d'histoire de la pensée philosophique, Cahiers des Annales, 19 (Paris: A. Colin, 1961), 311-329.

 

Richard Krautheimer, "Introduction to an 'Iconography of Medieval Architecture,'" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes v (1942): 1-33; reprinted in  Studies in Early Christian, Medieval, and Renaissance Art (New York: New York University Press, 1969), 115-150.

 

Wolfgang Lotz, "Sull'unità di misura nei disegni di architettura del Cinquecento," Bollettino del Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio 21 (1979): 223-33.

 

David Eugene Smith, History of Mathematics, Boston and New York: Ginn and Co., 1925, 2: Special Topics of Elementary Mathematics.  Reprint, New York: Dover, 1958.

 

Barbara Maria Stafford, Frances Terpak, Devices of Wonder. From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2001.

 

Christof Thoenes, "Il modello ligneo per San Pietro ed il metodo progettuale di Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane," Annali di Architettura, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio 9 (1997): 186-199.

 

Christof Thoenes, "Zur Frage des Massstabs in Architekturzeichnungen der Renaissance," in Studien zur Künstlerzeichnung, ed. Stefan Kummer and Georg Satzinger, Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje Verlag, 1990, 38-55.