For Pier Vittorio Aureli, the return of βausterity chicβ is a perversion of what ought to be a meaningful way of life. Charting ...
Continue Reading βArtist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired ...
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Continue Reading βHistorians generally recognize that the architectural patronage of Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584) provided important examples of Counter- Reformation architecture, and crucial models and criteria ...
Continue Reading βLeo Allatius was a Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library.His works are listed by Johann Albert Fabricius, in Bibliotheca Graeca (xi. 437), ...
Continue Reading βThe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the ...
Continue Reading βThis work presents a survey of Italian Renaissance architecture in the Cinquecento. It discusses the work of Bramante, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo and Palladio, ...
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