Distance points : essays in theory and Renaissance art and architecture / James S. Ackerman.

Preface: p. VIII.

Xenion. A bread and butter letter / Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt; Richard Krautheimer: p. IX-XXI.

Photograph credits: p. 547-548.

Index of names: p. 549-561.

Publicado en honor del autor en su cumpleaños 70.

James S. Ackerman: selected bibliography: p. XXII-XXVII.

Incluye referencias e índice bibliográfico.

I- Historical and critical theory — Style — Transactions in architectural design — Interpretation, response: toward a theory of art criticism — II- Art and Science — Alberti´s light — Leonardo´s eye — On Early Renaissance color theory and practice — Early Renaissance "Naturalism" and scientific illustrations — III- Reinassance architecture — "Ars sine scientia nihil est" — Gothic theory of architecture at the Cathedral of Milan — The Certosa of Pavia and the Reinassance in Milan — Sources of the Reinassance Villa — The Belvedere as a Classical Villa — Architectural practice in the italian Reinassance — The Capitoline Hill — The Gesú in the light of of contemporary church design — The geopolitics of Venetan architecture in the time of Titian — The Tuscan / Rustic order: a study in the metaphorical language of architecture.

Texto en inglés.