Transition of Italian Thought- Week 11

Giambattista Vico

 A philosopher who rejected the Enlightenment belief in progressive history in favor of a theory of cyclical historical development, wrote a book “Principles of a New Science” (1725)

Carlo Lodoli

A teacher whose ideas on the nature of materials created "form follows function"; shifted architecture toward modernism by removing ornaments; has theory “The proper use and nature of materials”

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A student of Lodoli known for his "fanciful" and speculative spatial compositions. He used eclectic, anti-Vitruvian forms and mixed pragmatism with mysticism

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Building

Prisons" (Carceri) feat. light/darkness: wonder, sadness and mystery

"Views of Rome" (1756)

Design of Santa Maria del Priorato (1764)

Giuseppe Castiglione

A Jesuit who worked in China, translating Western linear perspective for use in Chinese garden and architectural creations

Georges-Louis Le Rouge

Author of a garden encyclopedia that described the "Anglo-Chinese" garden style (1776-1788)

Chinoiserie (chinese like)

The European interpretation of the chinese style

Hubert Robert

The garden of Désert de Retz (1774)

Louis-Denis Le Camus building

Château de Chanteloup, Amboise, France (1760)

Giuseppe Castiglione building

A Jesuit garden in the Garden of Round Brightness (1747), Beijing