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 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 ...
Continue Reading βOrganicism 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 βThe 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 βOver the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and ...
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