布魯內萊斯基的穹頂 : 聖母百花大教堂的傳奇 Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

基本信息/Product Details

出版社 ? : ? Bloomsbury USA; 第 Illustrated 版 (2013年8月13日)

語言 ? : ? 英語

平裝 ? : ? 208頁

ISBN-10 ? : ? 1620401932

ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-1620401934

藍思 (Lexile) 閲讀分級 ? : ? 1400L

商品重量 ? : ? 200 g

尺寸 ? : ? 14.27 x 1.51 x 20.75 cm

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介/Book Deion

☆文藝復興時代的絕妙縮影，建築史上難以逾越的穹頂

☆2000年美國圖書館協會年度好書

☆2001年美國獨立書商非虛構類年度風雲書

☆《米開朗琪羅與教皇的天花板》愛好者不可錯過

【內容簡介】

他是天才，他是瘋子，他創造了名垂青史的建築奇蹟。

《布魯內萊斯基的穹頂》是關於一個文藝復興時期的天才如何避開有限的人力、物質手段和艱難的自然條件建造了一個至今仍然為人我們所驚歎的建築奇蹟的故事。作者在書中描寫了布魯內萊斯基這位天才如何將一個不可能完成的任務變成一個創舉，他發明新的機械，運用新的工作方法進行建造。故事裏，作者將這一歷史事件與瘟疫、戰爭、權力鬥爭以及思想的騷動有機地編織在一起，通過講述歷史，作者使得十五世紀的生活、傳統、各種人物、社會狀況躍然紙上。

作者用豐富翔實的細節描繪為讀者打開了一扇瞭解15世紀生活的窗子。他還介紹了制磚工藝的悠久傳統、運輸的難題以及各個行會的強大勢力。即便是在摩天大樓隨處可見的今天，聖母百花大教堂的穹頂仍然保持着一種罕見的震懾人心的力量。羅斯?金用21世紀的讀者可以感同身受的方式，把這段15世紀的教堂建造史生動地娓娓道來。

The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it.

On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of September." The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build: not only would it be enormous, but its original and sacrosanct design shunned the flying buttresses that supported cathedrals all over Europe. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air.

Of the many plans submitted, one stood out--a daring and unorthodox solution to vaulting what is still the largest dome in the world. It was offered not by a master mason or carpenter, but by a goldsmith and clockmaker named Filippo Brunelleschi, then forty-one, who would dedicate the next twenty-eight years to solving the puzzles of the dome's construction.

In the process, he reinvented the field of architecture.

Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Award-winning, bestselling author Ross King weaves this drama amid a background of the plagues, wars, political feuds, and the intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence to bring the dome's creation to life in a fifteenth-century chronicle with twenty-first-century resonance.

媒體評價/Review

令人愉悦的工程奇蹟拼盤……專業性的吸引力。

——《紐約時報書評》

羅斯?金將一系列文藝復興時期的精彩內容巧妙地融會到穹頂的建造工程中。拔地而起的工程奇蹟受人景仰，但發生在城市街道上的那些醜聞和惡作劇的細節能使整個故事更令人着迷。

——達瓦?索貝爾（Dava Sobel）著有《更完美的天堂》（A More Perfect Heaven）

關於文藝復興時期最偉大的結構工程成就的激動人心的故事。

——亨利?佩特羅斯基（Henry Petroski）著有《工程師入門指南》（An Engineer’s Alphabet）

引人入勝……同行間的嫉妒、委員會的詭計、不着邊際的吹噓和有意思的冷知識……《布魯內萊斯基的穹頂》令我們目眩神迷。

——《旁觀者》

以人類知識的寬廣邊界為背景的探險旅程……充滿各種精彩的故事。

——《金融時報》

一本精彩、生動的小書。

——《每日電訊報》

作者簡介/Author

羅斯?金，是一位廣受讚譽的作者，著有《萊昂納多和最後的晚餐》《米開朗琪羅與教皇的天花板》《帕里斯的裁判》《馬基雅維利：權力的哲學家》及兩本小説《藏書票》和《多米諾》。他生活在英格蘭的牛津郡外。

Born and raised in Canada, Ross King has lived in England since 1992. In 2002―03, two books of his were published in the United States, Domino, about the world of masquerades and opera in 18th century London and the New York Times bestselling Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling.

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003 in the category of critisicm, in Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling King tells the story of the four years―1508-1512.―Michelangelo spent painting the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine chapel. In this extraordinary book, he presents a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life of the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early 16th century Rome.

King’s highly acclaimed Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, was an instant hit in the U.S., landing on the New York Times, Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists and becoming a handselling favorite among booksellers. Brunelleschi’s Dome was chosen "The 2000 Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year" and a Book Sense 76 top ten selection.

Anyone familiar with Ross King’s writing knows that he has an astonishing knowledge of European cultural history. He originally planned a career in academia, earning his Ph.D. in English Literature and moving to England to assume a research position at the University of London.

King lives near Oxford, England, in the historic town of Woodstock, the site of Blenheim Palace. He is a devoted cyclist and hikes regularly in both the Pyrenees and the Canadian Rockies.