This compelling book offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of ...
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 →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 →An imaginary thread winds through the hills of Siena and its countryside. A guiding thread connecting the art of the fifteenth century with ...
Continue Reading →This magisterial study of Gothic architecture traces the meaning and development of the Gothic style through medieval churches across Europe. Ranging geographically from ...
Continue Reading →This book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance ‘revolution’ in historical ...
Continue Reading →Lina Bolzoni’s impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original ...
Continue Reading →In seeing printed reproductions as a form of response to Michelangelo’s work, Bernadine Barnes focuses on the choices that printmakers and publishers made ...
Continue Reading →From the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts ...
Continue Reading →This work presents a survey of Italian Renaissance architecture in the Cinquecento. It discusses the work of Bramante, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo and Palladio, ...
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