1809-1835 The author of the text of v. 1 is identified in the introduction to v. 2 as Richard Payne Knight. An inquiry ...
Continue Reading →This book contains the first scholarly architectural study of Paestum in English, edited by Major who alone is named on the title-page and ...
Continue Reading →The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing ...
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 →The first volume of The Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Architects, ...
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 →Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses ...
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 →This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work assumed a development of the ...
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 ...
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