Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical ...
Continue Reading →‘French Classicism’ remains an oddly elusive concept, not least because there appears to be an unbridgeable divide between the undisputed greatness of the ...
Continue Reading →Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a ...
Continue Reading →Thesis (Ph. D.)–Columbia University, 1934 Submitted in compliance of Mr. Bardbury’s Ph.D. The thesis is centered on the Vitruvian School of Architecture in ...
Continue Reading →The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the ...
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