From the earliest moment of his prolific career to the end of his life, Charles Blanc dedicated most of his intellectual energies to ...
Continue Reading →A physician, physicist, Cartesian, and “Modern” in the famous querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Claude Perrault acquired architectural immortality with his design ...
Continue Reading →Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (1721–circa 1793) emerges today as one of the more fascinating and influential architects of the French Enlightenment. Much ...
Continue Reading →Marina Warner begins with the gospels, noting the slight allusions to Mary, and the curious confusions between the two women of that name. ...
Continue Reading →This book grew out of a series of events organized by Irving Lavin in Princeton to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of Bernini’s death. ...
Continue Reading →Lives as lived and lives as written are never one and the same. To turn the first into the second one must introduce ...
Continue Reading →The 2008 exhibition Piranesi. The Print Collection of Ghent University, staged in the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) of Ghent, Belgium, thematized and ...
Continue Reading →Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity was intended to be the first volume of a four-part series of books covering the history of ...
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