‘Building in Words’ deals with the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. The first part ...
Continue Reading →In 16th- and 17th-century Spain, sculptors and painters combined their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of ...
Continue Reading →Erwin Panofksy was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century. Panofsky modestly described his second annual Wimmer Lecture at Saint Vincent ...
Continue Reading →In 1956 art historian Panofsky gave four incisive lectures at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University which were subsequently published ...
Continue Reading →With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the ...
Continue Reading →In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and ...
Continue Reading →Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was one of the most influential French art and architectural theorists. His career included programmes to reform ...
Continue Reading →Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers ...
Continue Reading →In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ...
Continue Reading →A remarkable investigation on the exhibitions that have shaped contemporary architecture. The first Venice Biennale of Architecture in 1980 was one of those ...
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