Norme e modelli. Il Rinascimento e l'Adriatico orientale

Between the 15th and 16th c. the Eastern Adriatic, partitioned between Venetian and Dubrovnik Republics, the Kingdom of Hungary-Croatia and Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, has been politically transformed into a vast archipelago, even mainland coastal towns divided from the hinterland. This process triggered the formation of fluctuating and floating architectural market functioning within a multilingual and multiconfessional context. The aim of the ERC AdriArchCult project is an overall study of the architectural culture of the region, overcoming the divisions of historiographies in different languages and traditional approaches based on the national or centre/periphery paradigm. This book offers its initial stimuli, with contributions on two main themes that characterise the era of the revival of antiquity: the circulation of models and the normalisation of classical language.