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 βFor well over a thousand years, scholars exploited the potential of architecture for allegorical representation. Regardless of whether they were describing the characteristics ...
Continue Reading βWhat if we think of beauty as an index to a cloud that talks about beauty. In a library beauty is not fixed, ...
Continue Reading βWhat is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we ...
Continue Reading βNo student of the architecture of Winchester Cathedral can pursue his studies very far before he comes across the name of Robert Willis, ...
Continue Reading βIn this book Sir John Summerson charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, ...
Continue Reading βThe Kunstkammer was a programmatic display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. These nascent ...
Continue Reading β“The Encyclopedia is one of the monuments of the eighteenth century, as true a monument as the pyramids, the temples, the forums or ...
Continue Reading βThe Introduction presents the development of architecture in the period from 1680 to 1820 as the result of changing interactions between architects, patrons, ...
Continue Reading βThis book documents the formulation of a definitive iconographic form for one of the most important doctrines of the Catholic Church. From the ...
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