Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century; despite this, his writings have been virtually inaccessible ...
Continue Reading βSome of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and grand ...
Continue Reading βArchitectural history has been taught and studied in a manner that has generally avoided the questioning of its methodological tools, never exposing, therefore, ...
Continue Reading βPublished in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesiβs Osservazioni is an impassioned defense of the superiority of Roman architectural invention over the beautiful and noble ...
Continue Reading ββWhen the young Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt was hoping to join the faculty at the newly founded Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich ...
Continue Reading βFor all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range ...
Continue Reading βIn 1638, the great artist-architect Gianlorenzo Bernini began one of the most ambitious architectural projects of his career: to design and construct massive ...
Continue Reading βAs an art patron, Sixtus V has always been more talked about than really known or understood. Even after the important studies of ...
Continue Reading βIn this interdisciplinary study, Henry Maguire examines the impact of several literary genres and rhetorical techniques on the visual arts of Byzantium. In ...
Continue Reading βThe progressive movements from the turn of the nineteenth century to the dawn of World War I largely preconditioned the modern avant-gardes that ...
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