Publisher | UCL Press |
ISBN 13 | 9781787359161 |
ISBN 10 | 1787359166 |
Author | Philip Steadman |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | Renaissance Fun explores the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. |
About the Author | Philip Steadman is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at UCL. He trained as an architect, and has taught at Cambridge University and the Open University. He has published several books on geometry in architecture, of which the most recent is Why Are Most Buildings Rectangular? (2018). In 2001 he published Vermeer’s Camera, on the Dutch painter’s use of the camera obscura. |
Publication Date | 2021-04-13 |
Number of Pages | 418 pages |
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