This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro’s 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic ...
Continue Reading →In “When All of Rome Was Under Construction,” architectural historian Dorothy Metzger Habel considers the politics and processes involved in building the city ...
Continue Reading →In ten chapters, partly case-studies, this monograph analyzes the (new) ways in which cultural manifestations were used to create the necessary preconditions for ...
Continue Reading →From city planning to the individual churches, this book is a historical mirror to the 17th century of the Rome. Download ...
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 →Antonio Francesco Gori, on his titlepages Franciscus Gorius (9 December 1691 – 20 January 1757), was a Florentine antiquarian, a priest in minor ...
Continue Reading →Giovanni Gaetano Bottari (15 January 1689, Florence – 5 June 1775, Rome) was Vatican librarian and counsellor to Pope Clement XII. Before he ...
Continue Reading →Pirro Ligorio (1510–1583), an Italian architect and antiquarian who designed the Casino of Pius IV and large portions of the gardens of the ...
Continue Reading →The marble bust of Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani (1648-1721) was sculpted in Rome in 1692 by the Carrarese Domenico Guidi (1625-1701 (and is exhibited ...
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