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  title info:
    title: Inessential colors
    sub title: architecture on paper in early modern Europe
  name:
    name part: Baudez, Basile
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 277 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm.
  abstract: Today, architectural plans and drawings are always signposted with colors, pink for poché, or exterior walls, yellow for certain interior elements, and blue for details and ornament. How and why did this practice begin? The craft of architectural drawing plans, sections and details, was originally developed during the Italian Renaissance under the influence of engravers. The results were correspondingly monochromatic, relying on representation through line and perspective. But in the 1800s, an influx of painters-turned-architects in Holland and Germany brought color into their designs. This innovation eventually spread throughout Europe, inspiring French architectural engineers to adopt a common color system in order to more clearly communicate their designs across the kingdom, and giving architects another tool with which to impress academic juries and the public. In this book, author Basile Baudez argues that color was not an essential feature of architectural drawing until European architects adopted a precise system of representation in response to political and artistic rivalry between countries, as well as the needs of public exhibitions. He shows that French engineers learned to use color from the Dutch colleagues they worked with and then fought against during the Dutch War (1672-78), demonstrating that a color-based system was published in French manuals for military engineers and used by royal architects, and that architects who wanted to compete with paintings for the public's attention needed to use the familiar language of color. This history reveals that color came to have three functions, to imitate architectural materials, to establish concise representational conventions that could span large geographic distances, and to seduce the public, including tourists. The book will feature a large number of fascinating, previously unpublished archival drawings, and will contribute to growing interest in the origins and professionalization of architecture, as…
  note: Basile Baudez.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Color in art
  subject:
    topic: Architectural drawing
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: ARCHITECTURE / General
  classification: NA2705 .B38 2021
  classification: 720.28/4
  identifier: 9780691213569
  identifier: 0691213569
  identifier: 2020049897
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201214
    record change date: 20220304153423.4
    record identifier: in00004552707