Alina Payne - Harvard University


	Work In Progress The Object as Event: Max Planck Seminars (Four volumes of essays arising from four international seminars, 2007-2011) For more information on these seminars and publications see Max Planck Project Modern Architecture and the Rise of a Theory of Objects (Manuscript completion in Spring 2007)

Books

Alina A. Payne
The Architectural Treatise in the Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament, and Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press, 1999

Recipient of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize from the Society of Architectural Historians (2000)

The Architectural Treatise in the Renaissance examines the Italian Renaissance architects' efforts to negotiate between the imitation and reinvention of classicism. Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, this study identifies ornament as the central issue around which much of this debate focused. Argues that ornament facilitated a dialogue across disciplines and invited exchanges with literary and rhetorical practices. Also highlights the place of the architectural treatise in the text-based culture of the period and of architectural discourse in Renaissance thought.

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Alina Payne, Anne Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick, editors
Antiquity and Its Interpreters
Cambridge University Press, 2000

Antiquity and Its Interpreters examines how the physical and textual remains of the ancient Romans were viewed and received by writers, artists, architects, and cultural makers of early modern Italy. The importance of antiquity in the Renaissance has long been acknowledged, but this volume reconsiders the complex relationship between the two cultures in light of recent scholarship in the field and a new appreciation and awareness of the act of history writing itself. The case studies analyze specific texts, the archaeological projects that made “antiquity” available, the revival of art history and theory, the appropriation of antiquities to serve social ideologies, and the reception of this cultural phenomenon in modern historiography, among other topics. Demonstrating that the antique model was itself an artful construct, Antiquity and Its Interpreters shows that the originality of Renaissance culture owed as much to ignorance about antiquity as to an understanding of it. It also provides a synthesis of seminal work that recognizes the reciprocal relationship of the Renaissance to antiquity.

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Introduction: Alina Payne, Anne Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick

Part I: Inhabiting History
Self-Definition
1. Imitation
James Ackerman
2. Petrarch and the Broken City
David Galbraith
3. Acquiring a Classical Past: Historical Appropriation in Renaissance Venice
Patricia Fortini Brown
4. Ordering History with Style: Giorgio Vasari on the Art of History
Philip Sohm

Continuities
5. Renaissance and Real Estate: The Medieval Afterlife of the “Temple of Diana” in Nîmes
Sheila Bonde
6. Imaginary Architecture and Antiquity: The Fountain of Venus in Francesco Colonna’s
Hypnerotomachia Polophili and Martine Furno
7. Antiquity Consumed: Transformations at San Marco, Venice
Marina Belozerskaya and Kenneth Lapatin

Part II: Culture Pursued
Transmission of Meaning
8. The Heritage of Zeuxis: Painting, Rhetoric, and History
Leonard Barkan
9. Looking at Venus and Ganymede Anew: Problems and Paradoxes in the Relations among Neoplatonic Writing and Renaissance Art
Julia Branna Perlman
10. Imitation, Innovation, and Renovation in the Counter-Reformation: Landscapes all’antica in the Vatican Tower of the Winds
Nicole Courtright

The (Re)Emergence of the Aesthetic
11. Ut poesis architectura: Tectonics and Poetics in Architectural Criticism circa 1570
Alina A. Payne
12. Vivid Thinking: Word and Image in Descriptive Techniques of the Renaissance
Rebekah Smick
13. The Body and Antiquity in Alberti’s Art Theoretical Writings
Gerhard Wolf
14. Patterns of Transumption in Renaissance Architectural Theory
Christof Thoenes

Part III: Culture Produced
Textual Exegesis
15. Pliny’s Laocoön?
Michael Koortbojian
16. Symmetry and Eurythmy at the Pantheon: The Fate of Bernini’s Perceptions from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day
T. A. Marder

Reconstructions
17. Appropriation Contexts: Décor, Furor Bacchius, Convivium
Phyllis Pray Bober
18. Si come dice Vetruvio: Images of Antiquity in Early Renaissance Theory of Architecture
Richard J. Betts

Part IV: Coda
Antiquity and the Renaissance from the Outside
19. Remaking Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Seville
Catherine Wilkinson Zerner
20. Winckelmann and Warburg: Contrasting Attitudes toward the Instrumental Authority of Ancient Art
Richard Brilliant
21. Figural Speculations
Michael Ann Holly
22. Writing History, Viewing Art: The Question of the Humanist’s Eye
Carl Goldstein

Alina Payne, Guest Editor
Displacements/Déplacements. Special issue of AI. Architecture and Ideas. Canadian Journal of Architecture, vol. 11, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2000).

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Articles

“Rudolf Wittkower.” Architettura e storia dell arte—un dialogo difficile. Eds. Sabine Frommel and Bruno Toscano. Licro Co. Italia, forthcoming 2007.

“Alberti and the Origins of the paragone Between Architecture and the Figural Arts.” Alberti teorico delli arti. Eds. F.P. Fiore and C. Frommel. Florence: L. Olschki, 2006.

“Venetian Architecture in the Renaissance and the Baroque.” Dictionary of Early Modern Europe. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 2004.

"Vasari, Architecture and the Origins of Historicizing Art." RES. Journal of Aesthetics and Anthropology 40 (Autumn 2001): 51-76.

"Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament in Renaissance Architecture," Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture. Eds. George Dodds and Robert Tavernor. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.

"Architecture, Ornament and Pictorialism: Notes on the History of an Idea from Wölfflin to Le Corbusier," Architecture and Painting. Ed. Karen Koehler. London: Ashgate Press, 2001.

"Von ornatus zu figura: Das figürliche Ornament in der italienischen Architektur des 16. Jahrhunderts." Die Rhetorik des Ornaments. Eds. Isabelle Frank and Freia Hartung. München: Fink Verlag, 2001.

"Architects and Academies: Architectural Theories of imitatio and the Debates on Language and Style." Architecture and Language. Eds. G. Clarke and P. Crossley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

"Architectural History and the History of Art: A Suspended Dialogue." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Special Millennium Issue, vol. 58, no. 3 (September 1999): 292-99.

"Architectural Criticism, Science and Visual Eloquence: Teofilo Gallaccini in Seventeenth-Century Siena." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 58, no. 2 (June 1999): 146-169.

"Architectural Creativity and bricolage in Renaissance Architectural Literature." RES. Journal of Aesthetics and Anthropology 34 (Autumn 1998): 20-38.

"Mescolare, composti and Monsters in Italian Architectural Theory of the Renaissance." Disarmonia, brutezza e bizzarria nel Rinascimento. Istituto di Studi Umanistici Francesco Petrarca. Ed. Luisa Secchi Tarugi. Florence: Franco Cesati, 1998.

"Rudolf Wittkower and Architectural Principles in the Age of Modernism." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 53, no.3 (September 1994): 322-42.

Recipient of the Founder's Award and Ann van Zanten Medal from the Society of Architectural Historians (1995)

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