St. Peter’s in the Vatican has a long and turbulent history. First constructed in the fourth century to honor the tomb of St. ...
Continue Reading βThe Grand Tour was all things to all men. For the Adam brothers, Robert and James, Italy offered a world of intense intellectual, ...
Continue Reading βA study of a period in art and design ranges from Baroque architecture in Rome in the early 1600s through Bernini, Boromini, and ...
Continue Reading βHenri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century architects consistently lionized as a precursor of modern architecture throughout the twentieth century and into ...
Continue Reading βGiovanni Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Although best known today for his art criticism and biographies ...
Continue Reading βThis highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: ...
Continue Reading βSome of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1816). By choosing in ...
Continue Reading βInitially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass’s translation of Filippo Baldinucci’s Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of ...
Continue Reading βIssued in conjunction with a 2016 exhibition of this sculptor rendered by Italian Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and his father, Pietro ...
Continue Reading βGian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor of the Baroque period, and yetβsurprisinglyβthere has never before been a major exhibition of his sculpture ...
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