- _English Language
- 1750-1850
- 17th Century
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy
- 19th century
- Bernini
- Christian Iconography
- Empire, Architecture + Catholicism
- England & British Isles
- France
- Gothic
- Italy
- Monuments + Conservation
- Popes, Vatican, Rome
- Renaissance
- Roman Architecture
- Rome
- Schinkel
- Spain
Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture
For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students ...
Continue Reading →Raimondi, Trattatisti e narratori del Seicento
«Secolo del genio», come volle definirlo lo Whitehead in rapporto alla stupefacente avventura della nuova scienza, il Seicento è un’epoca che lo storico ...
Continue Reading →- _English Language
- 17th Century
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy
- England & British Isles
- France
- Italy
- Renaissance
- Sources
- Spain
Payne, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
“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 →- _English Language
- 17th Century
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy
- Christian Iconography
- Empire, Architecture + Catholicism
- Italy
Levy, Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque
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 →- _English Language
- 17th Century
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy
- Bernini
- Portrait, Sculpture, Materiality
- Rome
Bernini, The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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 ...
Continue Reading →Most liked books
Tschumi, The Manhattan Transcripts
May 23, 2025
Tschumi, Red is not a Color
May 23, 2025Recent Comments
Categories
- _English Language 1454
- _French Language 55
- _German Language 69
- _Italian Language 54
- _Latin Language 45
- 1750-1850 64
- 17th Century 77
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy 5
- 19th century 45
- 20th Century 151
- 21th Century 75
- Aesthetics 5
- Afrofuturism 3
- Ancient Literature 37
- Anthropocene 1
- Anthropology 3
- Architectural Theory 228
- Architecture + Philosophy 37
- Architecture and Literature, Symbolism 36
- Art 13
- Art Theory 110
- Artificial Intelligence 11
- Artists in Rome 20
- Astronomy 2
- Autobiography 1
- Bernini 19
- Biology 5
- Catalogue 2
- Christian Iconography 18
- Christianity 13
- Cinema 2
- City 45
- Classical 1
- Construction 1
- Contemporary 2
- Design 29
- Digital Architectonics 26
- Drawings 41
- Economy 31
- Empire, Architecture + Catholicism 14
- England & British Isles 26
- Enlightenment Library 127
- Evolution 6
- Fashion 6
- Feminism 20
- Film Festival 1
- France 47
- Gender and Sexuality Studies 5
- Gothic 13
- Greek, Roman Library 99
- Historiography 43
- Humanism 12
- India 5
- Islam 5
- Italy 80
- Landscape Architecture 8
- LGBT 1
- Libraries 0
- Linguistics 6
- Literary Criticism 11
- Literary Theory 82
- Literature 95
- Low Countries (Benelux) 14
- Mathematics 61
- Medicine 4
- medieval library 38
- medieval literature 12
- Modern 51
- Monuments + Conservation 27
- Music Theory 1
- Mysticism 4
- Mythology 19
- Nature, Ecology, Animals 4
- Neurobiology 1
- Opera 5
- Philosophy 346
- Physics 16
- Poetry 6
- Politics 76
- Popes, Vatican, Rome 27
- Portrait, Sculpture, Materiality 56
- Post-Modern 22
- Programming 2
- Psychology 22
- Religion 23
- Renaissance 86
- Renaissance Library 80
- Rhetorics 1
- Roman Architecture 21
- Rome 122
- Schinkel 8
- Science 57
- Sociology 21
- Sound 7
- Sources 56
- Spain 10
- Switzerland 48
- Uncategorized 73
- Urbanism 53