architecture in text: fusion of text, image and space in the artistic culture of the early modern Italy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25704002
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Kuwakino Koji 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (30609441)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 記憶術 / 初期近代 / イタリア / 植物園 / 庭園 / 百科全書主義 / コモンプレイス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study is to understand from the interdisciplinary point of view the artistic culture of the early modern Italy, in which texts, images and spaces were inseparably intermingled to create works of art. However these aspects have not attracted the attention of scholars. This study, starting from the theories and precept of the traditional art of memory, tried to reveal them analyzing the discipline dedicated to fuse texts and images such as encyclopedism, commonplaces, emblem and impresa and their relations to architecture, garden and urban planning.

Free Research Field

西洋美術史・建築庭園史・思想史