Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe Baudez Basile
The first comprehensive account of the way in which architects learned to communicate through colorArchitectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the…
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The first comprehensive account of the way in which architects learned to communicate through colorArchitectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished. Basile Baudez argues that colors appeared on paper when architects adapted the pictorial tools of imitation, cartographers' natural signs, military engineers' conventions, and finally, painters' affective goals in an attempt to communicate with a broad public.Inessential Colors traces the use of color in European architectural drawings and prints, revealing how this phenomenon reflected the professional anxieties of an emerging professional practice that was simultaneously art and science. Traversing national borders, this book addresses color as a key