Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo began writing Notre-Dame de Paris in 1829, largely to make his contemporaries more aware of the value of the Gothic architecture, ...
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The third edition of the important ‘itineraries’ of the poet and antiquary John Leland (c.1503-1552), who made a number of trips around England ...
Continue Reading →Knight, An Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology
This influential work of 1818 by dilettante and critic Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) has stood the test of time. The study investigates the ...
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Spence, Polymetis or an Enquiry concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Antient Artists
The first edition had been published in 1747 (after lengthy preparation – Spence had assembled preparatory material during his first visit to Italy). ...
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En 1549, Henri II faisait à Paris une ” triomphale entrée “. Cette consécration du nouveau pouvoir était en même temps celle d’une ...
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For well over a thousand years, scholars exploited the potential of architecture for allegorical representation. Regardless of whether they were describing the characteristics ...
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What if we think of beauty as an index to a cloud that talks about beauty. In a library beauty is not fixed, ...
Continue Reading →Maguire, Art and Eloquence in Byzantium
In this interdisciplinary study, Henry Maguire examines the impact of several literary genres and rhetorical techniques on the visual arts of Byzantium. In ...
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‘Building in Words’ deals with the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. The first part ...
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In The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach ...
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