The project aims at a new reading of the work of Benedikt Ried, the foremost architect of Central European Early Renaissance who, at the same time, stood firmly in the tradition of Late Gothic architecture. Rieďs work will be scrutinized both with the help of scientific methods (new surveying of details and their geometrical analysis, research of building substance of Rieďs architectures) and by standard methods of art history as a humanistic discipline. It means that I would realize new research of archive materials, related to Rieďs works as well as of the visual sources, which could serve as an inspiration of Rieďs oeuvre. I would also analyze both the possible influence of modern architectural treatises as far as they were accessible in the Czech lands (Vitruvius, Leon Battista Alberti) and the role of traditinal Gothic design methods. The project contains the research of the role of infellectual advisers (Bohuslav Hasištejnský of Lobkovice) for the origin of Renaissance details in Rieďs
The project aims at a new reading of the work of Benedikt Ried, the foremost architect of Central European Early Renaissance who, at the same time, stood firmly in the tradition of Late Gothic architecture. Rieis work will be scrutinized both with thehel p of scientific methods (new surveying of details and their geometrical analysis, research of building substance of Rieis architectures) and by standard methods of art history as a humanistic discipline. It means that I would realize new research ofarchi ve materials, related to Rieis works as well as of the visual sources, which could serve as an inspiration of Rieis oeuvre. I would also analyze both the possible influence of modern architectural treatises as far as they were accessible in theCzech land s (Vitruvius, Leon Battista Alberti) and the role of traditinal Gothic design methods.