id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yv3ivwgjjbf7dmkcag7uptqpaa Michael Chapman James Ackerman—Origins, Imitation, Conventions 2003 4 .pdf application/pdf 2096 223 37 James Ackerman Origins, Imitation, Conventions focusing primarily on Ackerman's principal interest: the Italian Renaissance. and Architecture (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991), Ackerman reveals in the preface which refers to a point selected in constructing a Renaissance-specifically Albertianperspective image that fixes the distance of the observer from the object. Ackerman examines critically the relationship of academic history to specific historical Ackerman's work also embraces the relative position of the artist towards antiquity. Ackerman redefines creativity as a continual manipulation of historical conventions, architecture is described, depicting a hiatus in the Renaissance between the relative Renaissance art historians, provided a new theoretical impetus for architecture through by the architects of the Renaissance who preferred the principles of perspective over the perhaps my interpretation of Italian late medieval and Renaissance architectural architecture [Ackerman 2002: 61]. Another important historical moment depicted by Ackerman is the Renaissance Ackerman examines the relationship between authoritative account of major developments in art-history and architectural ./cache/work_yv3ivwgjjbf7dmkcag7uptqpaa.pdf ./txt/work_yv3ivwgjjbf7dmkcag7uptqpaa.txt