Baxandall, Giotto and the Orators
This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: ...
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In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, ...
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Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian ...
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Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory
Harry Mallgrave’s comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere ...
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Mallgrave, Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to ...
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Magnuson Torgil, Rome in the Age of Bernini II
The first volume of Rome in the Age of Bernini (1585-1644) was published in 1982. In the present volume I continue the story ...
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Magnuson, Torgil, Rome in the Age of Bernini I
The idea of writing this book first came to me when I was collaborating with the late professor Erik Sjöqvist on a revision ...
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Levy, Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque
In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the “propagandistic” art and architecture of the Jesuit ...
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The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI ...
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