The first volume of the Parallèle draws to a close with two pieces in verse, the Siècle de Louis le Grand, already published ...
Continue Reading →An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Claude Perrault ARTICLE I. Of ...
Continue Reading →It would be too long to examine here how well this edition served Colbert’s political-ideological project. Let us simply say that in spite ...
Continue Reading →First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval ...
Continue Reading →Après avoir consacré sa vie à la médecine, à la science et à l’architecture, Claude Perrault s’éteignait le 9 octobre 1688. Figure éminente ...
Continue Reading →The First Moderns portrays the complex of social and personal relationships, patronage, humanistic learning, and mystical and hermetic philosophy that made up the ...
Continue Reading →Faut-il considérer la publication de VArt Poétique de Boileau, au sein d’un recueil d’Œuvres diverses, en juillet 1674, comme un « grand événement ...
Continue Reading →Combining the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a unique ...
Continue Reading →This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by ...
Continue Reading →The art of sculpture in Baroque Italy reached unprecedented heights of technical perfection and emotional intensity. This book offers a view of this ...
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