Galli, Travel through the Fifteenth Century
An imaginary thread winds through the hills of Siena and its countryside. A guiding thread connecting the art of the fifteenth century with ...
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Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of drawings by the little-known Academy of Linceans, a seventeenth-century Italian group that took as ...
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Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label “sociology of art,” it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. ...
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This magisterial study of Gothic architecture traces the meaning and development of the Gothic style through medieval churches across Europe. Ranging geographically from ...
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An examination of recent developments in architecture, its” present commitment to a social and technological polemic notwithstanding, would reveal that aspects of painting ...
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A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and ...
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More than 35 years after first encountering one another in Manhattan at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (which Peter Eisenman had ...
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This book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance ‘revolution’ in historical ...
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Bernini, The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright, was the most influential artist of seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading ...
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Bergdoll, Oechslin, Fragments Architecture and the Unfinished
From the first treatise on architecture in antiquity, wholeness and finality were among the chief aspirations of architects, both in individual designs and ...
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