This engrossing book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture as well as the different meanings that artists and ...
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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 ...
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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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