The art of sculpture in Baroque Italy reached unprecedented heights of technical perfection and emotional intensity. This book offers a view of this ...
Continue Reading →The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued ...
Continue Reading →Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures contains the full text of Soane’s letters, carefully edited by David Watkin. It is a revised ...
Continue Reading →Examines the intersection of art and architecture in public works, discusses the sculptural aspects of architecture, and describes a series of nonpractical architectural ...
Continue Reading →Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines ...
Continue Reading →For well over a thousand years, scholars exploited the potential of architecture for allegorical representation. Regardless of whether they were describing the characteristics ...
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