Published By Order Of The Society Of Dilettanti Ionian Antiquities, Published, with Permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R. Chandler, M.A. F.S.A., ...
Continue Reading →The first edition had been published in 1747 (after lengthy preparation – Spence had assembled preparatory material during his first visit to Italy). ...
Continue Reading →Vetusta Monumenta [Ancient Monuments], originally published in seven volumes between 1747 and 1906, was the first of three major publication series launched by ...
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 →Examines the intersection of art and architecture in public works, discusses the sculptural aspects of architecture, and describes a series of nonpractical architectural ...
Continue Reading →The enduring influence of the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) derives primarily from his monumental theoretical foray Der Stil in der technischen und tektonischen ...
Continue Reading →Critical architectural theory has, over the past decade and a half, undergone significant transformation. The urgency of the 1990s pro-practice movement, with its ...
Continue Reading →Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Osservazioni is an impassioned defense of the superiority of Roman architectural invention over the beautiful and noble ...
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 →For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range ...
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