In this book Sir John Summerson charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, ...
Continue Reading βThe Kunstkammer was a programmatic display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. These nascent ...
Continue Reading βThis book documents the formulation of a definitive iconographic form for one of the most important doctrines of the Catholic Church. From the ...
Continue Reading βOver the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and ...
Continue Reading βA 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 βThis dissertation tells the story of the collections of artists and artisans in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. Based on archival research of probate inventories, ...
Continue Reading β“When the young Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt was hoping to join the faculty at the newly founded Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich ...
Continue Reading βThis detailed analysis of a large, unified body of student drawings from the first public competitions of the Accademia di San Luca, held ...
Continue Reading βWhy did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers ...
Continue Reading βA physician, physicist, Cartesian, and βModernβ in the famous querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Claude Perrault acquired architectural immortality with his design ...
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