这本插图丰富的作品重点介绍了布鲁内莱斯基，布拉曼特，拉斐尔和米开朗基罗等建筑师的作品，探讨了文艺复兴时期对古董的理解是如何变化的。大卫•海姆索尔（David Hemsoll）揭示了模仿策略的重大差异如何使该时期的顶级建筑师彼此区别开来，并主张更加细致入微地理解这个被广泛接受的说法，即文艺复兴时期的建筑通过对古代线性的逐步吸收而发展的，这个说法由乔治•瓦萨里（Giorgio Vasari）在16世纪首次提出。

A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope-first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century-that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.