Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XIV
Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed ...
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Blunt, Baroque and Rococo: Architecture and Decoration
A study of a period in art and design ranges from Baroque architecture in Rome in the early 1600s through Bernini, Boromini, and ...
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Henri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century architects consistently lionized as a precursor of modern architecture throughout the twentieth century and into ...
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Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively ...
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Philibert de l’Orme was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of the French Renaissance. In the 17th century, ...
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This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass ...
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In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that ...
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This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. ...
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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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