Laugier is best known for his Essay on Architecture published in 1753. In 1755 he published the second edition with a famous, often ...
Continue Reading →Le Théâtre, c’est un livre de bâtisseur qui ” a fini de construire “, en plein coeur du nouveau Paris haussmannien, la cathĂ©drale ...
Continue Reading →The Entwurff einer historischen Architectur (Outline of an Historical Architecture, 1721), produced by the Viennese court architect, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, has ...
Continue Reading →Libro di M. Pyrrho Ligori Napolitano delle antichità di Roma, nel quale si tratta de’ circi, theatri e anfitheatri, con le Paradosse del ...
Continue Reading →Dosio was born in San Gimignano. A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell’Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome (1548–75) ...
Continue Reading →Bartolomeo Marlianis (1488-1566) Schrift über die Topographie des antiken Roms erschien 1534 in Lyon in einer Ausgabe ohne Abbildungen. Eine illustrierte Ausgabe erschien ...
Continue Reading →This volume is dedicated to a specific kind of Renaissance publications – to books with portraits of famous people. Illustrium Imagines has become ...
Continue Reading →Antiquitates Urbis furnished more than a new guide to the antiquities of Rome seen by a humanist’s critical eye, the first of a ...
Continue Reading →Andrea Fulvio (in his Latin publications and correspondence Andreas Fulvius; c. 1470–1527) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian active in Rome, ...
Continue Reading →“He has revealed to us the whole of antiquity”: so spoke Pope Pius II of the historian and archaeologist avant la lettre, Biondo ...
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