Throughout the twentieth century, architecture was commonly distinguished from art, where we understand the latter to be the visual arts. Architects and artists ...
Continue Reading →The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI ...
Continue Reading →S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem ...
Continue Reading →The celebrated British architect Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837) created his extraordinary house-museum from three properties in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. There, ...
Continue Reading →Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert—these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases ...
Continue Reading →The Roman author Pliny tells the story—well known in the Renaissance—of the famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to ...
Continue Reading →This compelling book offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of ...
Continue Reading →This book is a collection of writings, but it might as well be a fascinating string of thoughts dotted with deeply personal remarks ...
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