Grafton, What Was History?
From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works ...
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Kruft, History of Architectural Theory
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, ...
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In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and ...
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Across all times and cultures, mankind has attached great importance to the foundation of buildings, cities and communities. By means of rituals of ...
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 The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous ...
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This study in intellectual history places the art historical concept of the Baroque amidst world events, political thought, and the political views of ...
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Giovanni Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Although best known today for his art criticism and biographies ...
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The myth of the artist-genius has long had a unique hold on the imagination of Western culture. Iconoclastic, temperamental, and free from the ...
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Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert—these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases ...
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Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label “sociology of art,” it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. ...
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