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 ...
Continue Reading →Francesco Albertini (born in Florence in 1469 – died post 30 August 1510) was a canon of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in ...
Continue Reading →Antoine Desgodets (Desgodetz) (1653-1728), professeur à l’Académie royale d’architecture de 1719 à 1728 après François Blondel (1671-1686) et Philippe de La Hire (1686-1718), ...
Continue Reading →François Blondel’s Cours d’architecture formed part of two related editorial contexts: the program of teaching at the newly established Academie royale d’architecture and ...
Continue Reading →Parallele de l’architecture antique et de la moderne, avec un recueil des dix principaux autheurs qui ont ecrit des cinq ordres, scavoir: Palladio ...
Continue Reading →The first volume of the Parallèle draws to a close with two pieces in verse, the Siècle de Louis le Grand, already published ...
Continue Reading →An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Claude Perrault ARTICLE I. Of ...
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