Giorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that ...
Continue Reading →“Tourism Revisited”, wishes to address the complex relationships between tourism, architecture and the city in relation to themes such as history and nostalgia, ...
Continue Reading →Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them ...
Continue Reading →St. Peter’s in the Vatican has a long and turbulent history. First constructed in the fourth century to honor the tomb of St. ...
Continue Reading →The Grand Tour was all things to all men. For the Adam brothers, Robert and James, Italy offered a world of intense intellectual, ...
Continue Reading →A study of a period in art and design ranges from Baroque architecture in Rome in the early 1600s through Bernini, Boromini, and ...
Continue Reading →Henri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century architects consistently lionized as a precursor of modern architecture throughout the twentieth century and into ...
Continue Reading →Giovanni Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Although best known today for his art criticism and biographies ...
Continue Reading →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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