Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert—these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases ...
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Continue Reading →This compelling book offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of ...
Continue Reading →This book is a collection of writings, but it might as well be a fascinating string of thoughts dotted with deeply personal remarks ...
Continue Reading →That aesthetics is central to Hegel’s philosophical enterprise is not widely acknowledged, nor has his significant contribution to the discipline been truly appreciated. ...
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Continue Reading →Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the ...
Continue Reading →It was in fifteenth-century Florence that Brunelleschi`s buildings and Alberti`s treatise first established the principles of Italian Renaissance architecture in practice and theory. ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1951, Arnold Hausers work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone ...
Continue Reading →De Architectura, the ten books by the Roman architect Vitruvius, survives as the only complete architectural treatise from antiquity. Its influence from the ...
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