Hugues, Hancarville, Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities
The text of Volumes I, II, is given in English and French in parallel; that of Volumes III, IV, in French only. This four-volume publication ...
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Excerpt from The Architectural Antiquities of Rome, Vol. 1: These Columns differ only three inches in height, but vary considerably in their proportions, ...
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Tatham, Etchings Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture
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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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Vetusta Monumenta [Ancient Monuments], originally published in seven volumes between 1747 and 1906, was the first of three major publication series launched by ...
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Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses ...
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This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work assumed a development of the ...
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Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari’s collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the ...
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“Art history rests upon the perception, knowledge of and about, as well as reflections upon, works of art. But insofar as it uses ...
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