Ramble, Linger, and Gaze explores a method of architectural research based on narrative dialogue and examines the garden theories and liteΒrary garden representations ...
Continue Reading βThe end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At ...
Continue Reading βOriginally published in 1984, The Clothing of Clio is concerned with the wide variety of ways in which the past was represented in ...
Continue Reading βEngineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively ...
Continue Reading βPhilibert de l’Orme was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of the French Renaissance. In the 17th century, ...
Continue Reading βIn sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, ...
Continue Reading βBernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, ...
Continue Reading βStyle is one of the oldest and most powerful analytic tools available to art writers. Despite the importance of style as an artistic, ...
Continue Reading β‘Sublime’ and ‘Milton’ – no other pairing is used more frequently in early discussions of the author of Paradise Lost: Addison finds Milton’s ...
Continue Reading βA fascinating exploration of art from the Renaissance to modern times by one of America’s most distinguished art historians. Focusing on specific masterpieces ...
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