1993
DOI: 10.2307/990784
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Speaking of Architecture: The Evolution of a Vocabulary in Vasari, Jones, and Sir John Vanbrugh

Abstract: The reading Jones gave to the books he owned could serve him in various ways. This article is concerned with one such use he made of the materials in the Vite by Giorgio Vasari, one volume of which we know he possessed and on which he made notes. It is suggested that this text gave him an opportunity to construct a critical vocabulary for architecture, different in character from that available to him from such sources as Palladio, Vitruvius, or Serlio. And it is also suggested that this new vocabulary is spec… Show more

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“…The evolution of a specialized vocabulary, for example, undeniably altered how people understood architecture, and how architects themselves conceived it. 169 Equally, as Gillian Darley has shown, Joseph Gandy's illustrations of John Soane's work both influenced the public's reception of the work and Soane's own perception of it. "It is as if Soane's architecture had been waiting for someone to translate [sic] his buildings from pleasing fair copies into continuous narrative-a visual argument with which to confront a critical world," she writes.…”
Section: Although See Nelson Goodman Languages Of Art: An Approach Tmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The evolution of a specialized vocabulary, for example, undeniably altered how people understood architecture, and how architects themselves conceived it. 169 Equally, as Gillian Darley has shown, Joseph Gandy's illustrations of John Soane's work both influenced the public's reception of the work and Soane's own perception of it. "It is as if Soane's architecture had been waiting for someone to translate [sic] his buildings from pleasing fair copies into continuous narrative-a visual argument with which to confront a critical world," she writes.…”
Section: Although See Nelson Goodman Languages Of Art: An Approach Tmentioning
confidence: 99%