The Kunstkammer was a programmatic display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. These nascent ...
Continue Reading →“The Encyclopedia is one of the monuments of the eighteenth century, as true a monument as the pyramids, the temples, the forums or ...
Continue Reading →The Introduction presents the development of architecture in the period from 1680 to 1820 as the result of changing interactions between architects, patrons, ...
Continue Reading →This book documents the formulation of a definitive iconographic form for one of the most important doctrines of the Catholic Church. From the ...
Continue Reading →Organicism in nineteenth-century architecture is the first full-length study devoted to organicism in nineteenth-century architecture. Although the close connection between architecture and living ...
Continue Reading →Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First ...
Continue Reading →The enduring influence of the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) derives primarily from his monumental theoretical foray Der Stil in der technischen und tektonischen ...
Continue Reading →Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and ...
Continue Reading →A visitor to the town of Zd’arnad Sazavou will be captivated, even from afar, by the sight of the crystalline architectural mass of ...
Continue Reading →The history of literary criticism in the Italian Renaissance has been written several times. It is the subject of a volume by Ciro ...
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