The 21st century will be the age of the city. Already over 50% of the world population live in urban centres and over ...
Continue Reading →Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the ...
Continue Reading →It was in fifteenth-century Florence that Brunelleschi`s buildings and Alberti`s treatise first established the principles of Italian Renaissance architecture in practice and theory. ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1951, Arnold Hausers work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone ...
Continue Reading →De Architectura, the ten books by the Roman architect Vitruvius, survives as the only complete architectural treatise from antiquity. Its influence from the ...
Continue Reading →Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French ...
Continue Reading →From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even ...
Continue Reading →In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by ...
Continue Reading →Described by Kenneth Clark as ‘one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever read’, Art and Illusion is ...
Continue Reading →A new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of ...
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