Architecture and Science in the Renaissance:
An Interactive Book Presentation
A hybrid Architecture Fringe event and discussion between Dr Elizabeth J. Petcu and Dr Richard Oosterhoff on the interplay between architecture and science during the Renaissance, marking the arrival of Dr Petcu's new book, The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
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When: Thursday, 12 June, 14:30-15:30 UK
Where: Room 1.03, 7-8 Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1HR and online via Zoom
​How: Register here.
Image Credits
Image 1: Attributed to Etienne DuPérac, St. Peter's, dome and drum, interior section and elevation, and labeled details, early to mid-16th century, Pen and brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines, sheet: 11 13/16 x 17 5/16 in. (30 x 44 cm), Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949 49.92.92, 49.92.92
Image 2: Attributed to Peter Flötner, Architectural Genius, hand-colored woodcut with letterpress in Walther Hermann Ryff’s Der furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen Mathematischen vnd Mechanischen künst […] (Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1547), Dresden, SLUB Dresden, Digital Collections, Optica.31, fol. 1v. Image in the
Public Domain.
Image 3: Wendel Dietterlin, Design for an Elaborate Fountain Surmounted by a Statue of St. Christopher, 1598 or earlier, pen and black ink, brush and grey wash, sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/16 in. (24.4 x 18 cm), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2006, 2006.89. Image in the Public Domain
Image 4: Attributed to a member of the Sangallo family, Landscape with Trees and Figures (? Remarks on the Winds and the Lay-out of the City; Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 6, nos. 2, 3), 1530–1545, Pen and dark brown ink, Sheet: 6 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. (15.5 x 26.6 cm), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2008, 2008.105.6. Image in the Public Domain