Alberti, Delineation of the City of Rome
In the 1440s, Leon Battista Alberti carried out a topographical survey of the city of Rome that, he claims, was conducted as accurately as ...
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A collection of Alberti’s four mathematical treatises, intended to capture Alberti’s unique combination of formal and informal writing, will be available for the first time ...
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The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, ...
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Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power by Stijn Bussels is certainly a valuable, praiseworthy contribution to the growing literature on Netherlandish festivals. It offers a ...
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A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of ...
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De statua is not – as the title suggests – “treatise on sculpture or sculpture, but a proposal to solve some problems, such ...
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Over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, European society confronted rapid monetization, a process that has been examined in depth by ...
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Marie Luise Gothein (1863-1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated ...
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This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro’s 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic ...
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De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for ...
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