Early modern spaces in motion: design, experience, and rhetoric

Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, r...

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Other Authors: Skelton, Kimberley ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2023
Series:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544592
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544592
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544592
Summary:Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, rather than segmented, movement. New spaces that included vistas along house interiors and uninterrupted library reading rooms offered open expanses for shaping sequences of social behaviour, scientists observed how the Earth rotated around the sun, and philosophers attributed emotions to neural vibrations in the human brain. 'Early Modern Spaces in Motion' examines this increased emphasis on motion with eight essays encompassing a geographical span of Portugal to German-speaking lands and a disciplinary range from architectural history to English
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (274 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789048544592
DOI:10.1017/9789048544592