Federico Borromeo, Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan (1564–1631), is well known as a leading Catholic reformer and as the founder of the Ambrosiana library, art ...
Continue Reading →In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be ...
Continue Reading →Identifies and sketches the history of baroque-style churches, palaces, villas, and fountains in Rome and includes a brief look at the Vatican and ...
Continue Reading →A summary of the ideas and buildings of the period before the French Revolution with particular reference to the roots of modern architecture. ...
Continue Reading →Two architectural theorists and designers look back over their influential professional careers, their dedication to broadening the view of the built world, and their iconoclastic ...
Continue Reading →Giorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that ...
Continue Reading →“Tourism Revisited”, wishes to address the complex relationships between tourism, architecture and the city in relation to themes such as history and nostalgia, ...
Continue Reading →Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them ...
Continue Reading →St. Peter’s in the Vatican has a long and turbulent history. First constructed in the fourth century to honor the tomb of St. ...
Continue Reading →The Grand Tour was all things to all men. For the Adam brothers, Robert and James, Italy offered a world of intense intellectual, ...
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