Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history ...
Continue Reading →The principle of the “lesser evil,” which asserts that it is acceptable to pursue an undesirable course of action in order to prevent ...
Continue Reading →As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) ...
Continue Reading →In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that ...
Continue Reading →Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool to ...
Continue Reading →In this book, Tsiambaos redefines the ground-breaking theory of Greek architect and town planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis (The Form of Space in Ancient ...
Continue Reading →Every era has invented a different idea of the ‘classical’ to create its own identity. Thus the ‘classical’ does not concern only the ...
Continue Reading →Oxford is a place in which we are exceptionally well placed to study this phenomenon, partly because college and university archives have been ...
Continue Reading →Sumptuous plasterwork ornament is a celebrated and distinctive feature of Ireland’s 18th-century domestic architecture. Migrant craftsmen brought the modeling skills and decorative forms ...
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