For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students ...
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Continue Reading →“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 →In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the “propagandistic” art and architecture of the Jesuit ...
Continue Reading →Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright, was the most influential artist of seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading ...
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