Les modèles italiens dans les livres d’architecture français servent de fil conducteur à cette étude, qui révèle le rôle des recueils d’Italie publiés ...
Continue Reading →Pirro Ligorio (1510–1583), an Italian architect and antiquarian who designed the Casino of Pius IV and large portions of the gardens of the ...
Continue Reading →The final work by Guattari before his death in 1992, this is a radical and challenging work concerned with the reinvention and resingularisation ...
Continue Reading →Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari’s collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the ...
Continue Reading →‘The Projects of the Year II: Gathering of Architecture of the Revolutionary Period.’ Drawings and renderings by architects such as Boullée, Ledoux, E.N. ...
Continue Reading →“Art history rests upon the perception, knowledge of and about, as well as reflections upon, works of art. But insofar as it uses ...
Continue Reading →This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis ...
Continue Reading →Combining the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a unique ...
Continue Reading →The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued ...
Continue Reading →Examines the intersection of art and architecture in public works, discusses the sculptural aspects of architecture, and describes a series of nonpractical architectural ...
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