During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered ...
Continue Reading →Passion and Control explores Dutch architectural culture of the eighteenth century, revealing the central importance of architecture to society in this period and ...
Continue Reading →A summary of the ideas and buildings of the period before the French Revolution with particular reference to the roots of modern architecture. ...
Continue Reading →The Grand Tour was all things to all men. For the Adam brothers, Robert and James, Italy offered a world of intense intellectual, ...
Continue Reading →Style is one of the oldest and most powerful analytic tools available to art writers. Despite the importance of style as an artistic, ...
Continue Reading →This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass ...
Continue Reading →Throughout history and around the world, people have interacted with works of art as if they were living beings rather than static objects. ...
Continue Reading →In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally ...
Continue Reading →In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that ...
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