Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and ...
Continue Reading →A visitor to the town of Zd’arnad Sazavou will be captivated, even from afar, by the sight of the crystalline architectural mass of ...
Continue Reading →The history of literary criticism in the Italian Renaissance has been written several times. It is the subject of a volume by Ciro ...
Continue Reading →This dissertation tells the story of the collections of artists and artisans in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. Based on archival research of probate inventories, ...
Continue Reading →During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered ...
Continue Reading →Critical architectural theory has, over the past decade and a half, undergone significant transformation. The urgency of the 1990s pro-practice movement, with its ...
Continue Reading →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 →Some of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and grand ...
Continue Reading →Architectural history has been taught and studied in a manner that has generally avoided the questioning of its methodological tools, never exposing, therefore, ...
Continue Reading →Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Osservazioni is an impassioned defense of the superiority of Roman architectural invention over the beautiful and noble ...
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