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Continue Reading →Philibert de l’Orme was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of the French Renaissance. In the 17th century, ...
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Continue Reading →In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally ...
Continue Reading →Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of ...
Continue Reading →John Shearman makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions ...
Continue Reading →The ‘rediscovery’ in sixteenth-century Italy of Aristotle’s Poetics marks a crucial moment in the development of Western thought about literature, for the flood ...
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