“There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on ...
Continue Reading →This study in intellectual history places the art historical concept of the Baroque amidst world events, political thought, and the political views of ...
Continue Reading →“Rome, golden, eternally powerful, glorious, world-dominating Rome, sovereign of cities, city of cities, the fortunate, regal, holy city, the greatest of cities, seat ...
Continue Reading →At the close of the 16th century, Europe’s most talented painters flocked to Rome, the Eternal City, to execute commissions for popes, princes, ...
Continue Reading →Today the Book remains the most reliable and illuminating account of Renaissance court life and of what it took to be the “Perfect ...
Continue Reading →When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be – and was – said. As Surveyor ...
Continue Reading →Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely ...
Continue Reading →Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed ...
Continue Reading →Federico Borromeo, Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan (1564–1631), is well known as a leading Catholic reformer and as the founder of the Ambrosiana library, art ...
Continue Reading →In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be ...
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