Montagu, The Aesthetics of Roman Eighteenth Century Sculpture
Few art historians would dispute that Jennifer Montagu is one of the most distinguished scholars of Italian (mostly Roman) Baroque sculpture. Besides her ...
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With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. ...
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The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, ...
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Vitruvius, as he himself lamented, was not a success professionally nor was he a talented writer, yet his De architectura , written for ...
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Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory
Harry Mallgrave’s comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere ...
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Mallgrave, Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to ...
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Magnuson Torgil, Rome in the Age of Bernini II
The first volume of Rome in the Age of Bernini (1585-1644) was published in 1982. In the present volume I continue the story ...
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Magnuson, Torgil, Rome in the Age of Bernini I
The idea of writing this book first came to me when I was collaborating with the late professor Erik Sjöqvist on a revision ...
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What does the city’s form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city’s ...
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Levy, Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque
In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the “propagandistic” art and architecture of the Jesuit ...
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