Notes to pages 50– 53 145conference at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris,
12 – 16 June 2007) considered this pairing in some detail under
the title ‘Le Gothique de la Renaissance’.
23 This point draws on comments made to me by John Macarthur,
who has served in this capacity. Compare Paul Walker &
Stuart King, ‘Style and Climate in Addison’s Brisbane
Exhibition Building’, Fabrications 17, no. 2 (December 2007):
22 – 43, esp. 23–8.
24 Arnold Hauser, Social History of Art, 4 vols. ([1951– ],
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962); and Philosophy of
Art History (London: Routledge; New York: Knopf, 1959),
esp. ‘Wölffl in and Historicism’, 119–39.
25 See, for example, Charles Burroughs, From Signs to Design:
Environmental Process and Reform in Early Renaissance
Rome (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990); Manfredo Tafuri,
Venezia e il rinascimento. Religione, scienza, architettura
(Turin: Einaudi, 1985); Engl. edn, Venice and the Renaissance,
trans. Jessica Levine (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995) –
compare Tafuri, Humanism, Technical Knowledge and Rheto-
ric: The Debate in Renaissance Venice (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1986); Deborah Howard,
Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on
Venetian Architecture, 1100– 1500 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale
University Press, 2000).
26 Hessel Miedema, ‘On Mannerism and maniera’, Simiolus:
Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 10, no. 1 (1978–
9): 19–45. Compare the panel dedicated to this theme and
chaired by Ernst Gombrich, ‘Recent Concepts of Mannerism’,
in Studies in Western Art: Acts of the Twentieth International
Conference of the History of Art, vol. II, The Renaissance and
Mannerism, ed. Ida E. Rubin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1963), 163–255. This included contributions
by Craig Hugh Smyth, John Shearman, Frederick Hartt and
Wolfgang Lodz. Franklin W. Robinson & Stephen G. Nichols,
Jr (eds.), The Meaning of Mannerism (Hannover, NH:
University Press of New England, 1972). Compare Craig
Hugh Smyth, Mannerism and Maniera (Locust Valley, NY:
J. J. Augustin, 1962) and John Shearman, Mannerism
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967).
27 Antonio di Tuccio Manetti, The Life of Brunelleschi, ed.
Howard Saalman, trans. Catherine Enggass (University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1970).
28 Compare Focillon’s observation in La vie des formes that the
division of historical time by century lends the century itself a
biographical character.