A long-awaited reassessment of Andrea Palladioโs canonical villas that challenges widely accepted interpretations of the Renaissance architectโs work Many historians of architecture have viewed the ...
Continue Reading โFive Architects, originally published in 1975, grew out of a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held ...
Continue Reading โEmil Kaufmann (1891 in Vienna โ 1953 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) was an Austrian art and architecture historian. He was the son of Max Kaufmann (died ...
Continue Reading โEssays by renowned Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) are compiled in this volume. Written over the span of 20 years, these essays were composed ...
Continue Reading โAthanasius Kircher (1602โ80) stands out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of ...
Continue Reading โThe Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization ...
Continue Reading โA collection of essays written essentially by members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, exploring certain ...
Continue Reading โThe Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-Franรงois Lyotard, in ...
Continue Reading โExcerpt from Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari Vasari, and tell the tales as nearly as I can in his own words. His treatment ...
Continue Reading โI quattro libri dell’architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508โ1580), written in Italian. It was ...
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