Distance Points: Studies in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture

Preface

Xenion: A Bread and Butter Letter, by Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt and Richard Krautheimer

James S. Ackerman: Selected Bibliography

I HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL THEORY

1. Style
2. Transactions in Architectural Design
3. Interpretation, Response: Toward a Theory of Art Criticism

II ART AND SCIENCE

4. Alberti's Light
5. Leonardo's Eye
6. On Early Renaissance Color Theory and Practice
7. Early Renaissance "Naturalism" and Scientific Illustration

III RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

8. "Ars Sine Scientia Nihil Est": Gothic Theory of Architecture at the Cathedral of Milan
9. The Certosa of Pavia and the Renaissance in Milan
10. Sources of the Renaissance Villa
11. The Belvedere as a Classical Villa
12. Architectural Practice in the Italian Renaissance
13. The Capitoline Hill
14. The Gesù in the Light of Contemporary Church Design
15. The Geopolitics of Venetan Architecture in the Time of Titian
16. The Tuscan/Rustic Order: A Study in the Metaphorical Language of Architecture

Photograph Credits

Index of Names