In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the ...
Continue Reading →One of the most detailed works describing the walls of this renowned city, Alexander Van Milligen’s Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City ...
Continue Reading →The Divine Comedy is Dante’s record of his visionary journey through the triple realms of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. This, the first ‘epic’ ...
Continue Reading →The work outlines Augustine’s sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and ...
Continue Reading →Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also who designed it, what kind of ...
Continue Reading →For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students ...
Continue Reading →The art of sculpture in Baroque Italy reached unprecedented heights of technical perfection and emotional intensity. This book offers a view of this ...
Continue Reading →As an art patron, Sixtus V has always been more talked about than really known or understood. Even after the important studies of ...
Continue Reading →No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than City of God. Since medieval Europe was the ...
Continue Reading →In 16th- and 17th-century Spain, sculptors and painters combined their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of ...
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