Fragments towards a Theology of Architecture

By Jose De Paiva

Intended as the first of a theological series, Fragments I addresses the mystery of divine presence in the created world. Appearing in the Council of Trent as real presence and more widely in the metaphor of the presence of light in the visible world, the question would steer the course of metaphysics, geometry and architecture all throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the writings of Robert Bellarmine, the hierarchy of the created world would offer a stairway to the source of light and vision. In authors like Francesco Patrizi, Fran?ois de Aguil?n and Christoph Scheiner, Juan Caramuel, Mario Bettini and Guarino Guarini, light itself was described along the lines of the cone of light and vision in optics and perspective. Visual representation was seen in terms of the deformatio and reformatio of the visual field, and reflected in concepts of architectura recta and obliqua. Fragments I introduces a theological approach to the nature of our visible world, where art and architecture provide a tangible body of interpretation - from the work of Francesco Borromini and Andrea Pozzo to Christoph Dientzenhofer and Balthasar Neumann.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692372873
• ISBN13: 9780692372876
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Hinterland
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.1"