Review: Guarino Guarini and His Architecture by H. A. Meek

1989 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-398
Author(s):  
Daniela Del Pesco
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Author(s):  
Alessandra Mazziotti ◽  
Giuseppe Brandonisio ◽  
Giuseppe Lucibello ◽  
Antonello De Luca

1966 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-260
Author(s):  
Richard Pommer
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1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elwin C. Robison

The architecture of Guarini is distinguished from that of his Roman contemporaries by the complex geometries of his forms and the use of conic sections in his vaults. The use of advanced geometries in his domed churches was prompted not by numeric or structural theory but by optic considerations. The development of forced perspective in his vault shapes and use of light were influenced by theories on aesthetics and optics that were debated while Guarini was in Paris. The parallels between Guarini's architectural theory and that of Claude Perrault, as well as Guarini's unique aesthetic assessment of Gothic architecture, suggest that he developed these ideas during his four-year stay in Paris.


2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. D'Elia

In the fifteenth century, Guarino Guarini, Ludovico Carbone, Francesco Filelfo, and other humanists composed and delivered Latin orations at courtly weddings in Ferrara, Naples, and Milan. In these epithalatmia, which are mostly unpublished, orators adapt a classically inspired conception of marriage to Italian court culture. They defend physical beauty and sexual pleasure, praise learned brides, and assert the importance of mutual affection, revealing a complex picture of ideal gender relations in courts. Against the ancient and Christian anti-marriage ascetic traditions, humanists offer biblical, philosophical, political, economic, and hedonistic arguments in defense of marriage.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Grúňová ◽  
Michaela Holešová

AbstractOval, circular and elliptic forms appear in the architecture from the very beginning. The basic problem of the geometric analysis of the spaces with an elliptic or oval ground plan is a great sensitivity of the outcome calculations to the plan's precision, mainly to distinguish between oval and ellipse. Sebastiano Serlio and Guarino Guarini belong to those architects, theoreticians, who analysed the potential of circular or oval forms and some of their ideas are analysed in the paper. Elliptical or oval plans were used also in Slovak baroque architecture or interior elements and the paper introduce some of the most known examples as a connection to the world architecture ideas.


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