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 →This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by ...
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 →Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines ...
Continue Reading →What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we ...
Continue Reading →This book documents the formulation of a definitive iconographic form for one of the most important doctrines of the Catholic Church. From the ...
Continue Reading →Organicism in nineteenth-century architecture is the first full-length study devoted to organicism in nineteenth-century architecture. Although the close connection between architecture and living ...
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 →This dissertation tells the story of the collections of artists and artisans in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. Based on archival research of probate inventories, ...
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