Beauty and Body in the De architectura de Vitrúvio: an open question.

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https://doi.org/10.11606/1984-4506.risco.2021.166352

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Treaties, De Archictetura, Vitruvius

Abstract

The styles of utterance "tender", "medium" and "high", operating in Classical Rhetoric and Poetics, can provide inputs for the understanding of what historians have pointed out as contradictory elements in the weaving of De architectura, written by the roman architect Vitruvius in the last quarter of the 1st century B.C. The well-known Vitruvian analogy of architecture as a well-shaped body is here considered by compositio regimes that can be identified in the treaty, inviting inquiries about the influx of the notions of beauty and sublime in the ordering of the work.

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Published

2021-07-28

How to Cite

D'Agostino, M. H. S. . (2021). Beauty and Body in the De architectura de Vitrúvio: an open question. Risco - Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 19, 7-13. https://doi.org/10.11606/1984-4506.risco.2021.166352