Bek, Achse und Monument
Die Platzkonzeptionen der Frühen Neuzeit sind aufgrund ihrer komplexen axialen Bezüglichkeiten beispielhaft dazu geeignet, den sinnlich erfahrbaren, symbolischen Gehalt ihrer räumlichen Anordnungen erkennen ...
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Van Eck, Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe
In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally ...
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Kavaler, Renaissance Gothic
This compelling book offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of ...
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Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the ...
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Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical ...
Continue Reading →Bolzoni, The Gallery of Memory
Lina Bolzoni’s impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original ...
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