It has been an ancient and obsessive dream of mine to mount—for the first time ever — a major exhibition of drawings by ...
Continue Reading →In this sweeping volume, Professor Acocella analyzes every type of stone, from those used by the Egyptians to the marble used by Mies ...
Continue Reading →Unprecedented in its in-depth coverage, and with over 500 illustrations, photographs, and architectural drawings the multi-volume Companion to the History of Architecture offers ...
Continue Reading →Theories of Art offers a thorough-going analysis and reassessment of major trends in European art theory and the development of that theory from ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A “gentle ...
Continue Reading →The present study is closely connected with a lecture given by Prof. Ernst Cassirer at the Warburg Library whose subject was “The Idea ...
Continue Reading →The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
Continue Reading →This detailed analysis of a large, unified body of student drawings from the first public competitions of the Accademia di San Luca, held ...
Continue Reading →This book is the first in English devoted to Francois Duquesnoy, a central figure in seventeenth-century European sculpture, a rival to Bernini, and ...
Continue Reading →An extremely in-depth analysis of textual sources relating to the Greek concept of xoana, purported archaic wooden statues of gods. The book has ...
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