Contents
List of Illustrations page ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xxix
1 A SENSE OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 1
The Pluralism of William James 2
New Directions in Scholarship 6
Renaissance Architecture and the Great Divide 10
Architectural Phenomenology 15
The Architectural Historian and the Senses 18
A Map to the Book 25
2 ARCHITECTURE AND THE IMAGINATION 29
The Renaissance Understanding of the Senses 33
Interacting with Environments 37
Renaissance Reverie 43
Architectural Reverie 45
Material Reverie 49
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 52
La Petite Maison 57
3 MOVEMENT IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 63
"Static and Unchangeable Form" 66
Gender, Movement, and the City 78
Walking on Chopines 79
The Pleasures of the Paved Surface 84
City Walls and Gates 92
Neighborhood Boundaries 94
On Foot in Renaissance Rome 99
4 THE BUILDING OF DEVOTION 106
The Mystery of Smell 108
Intimate Olfactory Patterns 112
Scenting Three Chapels 115
Proximate to Distant Sensing 122
Sensory Ethics 125
Scents of the Imagination 127
The Ghetto and the Senses 129
5 SENSATIONS OF HEAL TH AND ILLNESS 140
Architecture and the Medical Treatise 141
Sensing in Public and in Private 146
Florence: Santa Maria Nuova 151
Milan: Ospedale Maggiore 155
Ottoman Hospitals and the Senses 165
Sensory Refreshment and the Garden 167
Malta: Sacra Infermeria 171
Epilogue 177
Bibliography 189
Notes 205
Index 223