In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and ...
Continue Reading →Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was one of the most influential French art and architectural theorists. His career included programmes to reform ...
Continue Reading →Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers ...
Continue Reading →In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ...
Continue Reading →A remarkable investigation on the exhibitions that have shaped contemporary architecture. The first Venice Biennale of Architecture in 1980 was one of those ...
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