Fragments of Order. Constructing Renaissance Architecture in the Low Countries KU Leuven
This PhD project will revisit the first developments of ‘Renaissance’ architecture of the Low Countries by focusing on the architectural fragments in early sixteenth-century painting in its interaction with the print medium. Interest in antiquity led to creatively combining classical elements of architecture in paintings, prints, and tapestry. However, once the theory of the Five Column Orders developed in Rome, art theorists from Italy and ...