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 →In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and ...
Continue Reading →Powers 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 →A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The ...
Continue Reading →Focusing on images and descriptions of movement and spectacle – everyday street activities, congregations in market piazzas, life in the Jewish ghetto and ...
Continue Reading →Taste and the Antique offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the reception and afterlife of the most famous ancient statues discovered in ...
Continue Reading →Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of ...
Continue Reading →An 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 →During the early modern period sculptors experimented with forms, typologies, and materials of their art in unprecedented ways. Sculpture was at the center ...
Continue Reading →“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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