This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century ...
Continue Reading βThe first section of the book consists of six rigorously argued essays that investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, βmasculine and ...
Continue Reading βAn important volume available in Italian and in English, produced in co-edition with 24 ORE Culture, that through long and complex archival research ...
Continue Reading βOne of the greatest architectural artists of all time, and certainly the most famous copper engraver of the 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi ...
Continue Reading βIn The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach ...
Continue Reading βThe well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality ...
Continue Reading βCORTONA, Pietro da. Tabulae Anatomicae a Celeberrimo Pictore Petro Berrettino Cortonesi. Text by Cajetano Petrioli. [4], 84 pp. Illustrated with an engraved plate ...
Continue Reading βSacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result ...
Continue Reading βAcross all times and cultures, mankind has attached great importance to the foundation of buildings, cities and communities. By means of rituals of ...
Continue Reading βThis study focuses on change and continuity within the architecture of the Southern and Northern Low Countries from 1530 to 1700. Instead of ...
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