“When the young Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt was hoping to join the faculty at the newly founded Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich ...
Continue Reading βFor all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range ...
Continue Reading βIn 1638, the great artist-architect Gianlorenzo Bernini began one of the most ambitious architectural projects of his career: to design and construct massive ...
Continue Reading βAs an art patron, Sixtus V has always been more talked about than really known or understood. Even after the important studies of ...
Continue Reading βIn this interdisciplinary study, Henry Maguire examines the impact of several literary genres and rhetorical techniques on the visual arts of Byzantium. In ...
Continue Reading βThe progressive movements from the turn of the nineteenth century to the dawn of World War I largely preconditioned the modern avant-gardes that ...
Continue Reading βWhen we look at the view while out walking, or when protestors against wind farms criticise them for damaging the ‘landscape’, or when ...
Continue Reading βNo book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than City of God. Since medieval Europe was the ...
Continue Reading βIt has been an ancient and obsessive dream of mine to mountβfor the first time ever β a major exhibition of drawings by ...
Continue Reading βIn this sweeping volume, Professor Acocella analyzes every type of stone, from those used by the Egyptians to the marble used by Mies ...
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