This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, ...
Continue Reading βIn 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of BesanΓ§on transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and ...
Continue Reading βPowers Matchless is the first book-length study on the Baldachin inside St. Peters, Rome (1624-1633). It situates the monument in the center of ...
Continue Reading βA social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The ...
Continue Reading βFocusing on images and descriptions of movement and spectacle – everyday street activities, congregations in market piazzas, life in the Jewish ghetto and ...
Continue Reading βTaste and the Antique offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the reception and afterlife of the most famous ancient statues discovered in ...
Continue Reading βAndrea Palladio (1508Ββ1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of ...
Continue Reading βAn important volume available in Italian and in English, produced in co-edition with 24 ORE Culture, that through long and complex archival research ...
Continue Reading βDuring the early modern period sculptors experimented with forms, typologies, and materials of their art in unprecedented ways. Sculpture was at the center ...
Continue Reading β“There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on ...
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