Agricola, De Re Metallica
Originally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation — what today ...
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In this book, Robert Bork offers a sweeping reassessment of late Gothic architecture and its fate in the Renaissance. In a chronologically organized ...
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Payne, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
“When the young Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt was hoping to join the faculty at the newly founded Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich ...
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In 1956 art historian Panofsky gave four incisive lectures at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University which were subsequently published ...
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Today the Book remains the most reliable and illuminating account of Renaissance court life and of what it took to be the “Perfect ...
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Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large ...
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John Shearman makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions ...
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The impact of early Italian humanism on the development of Quattrocentro architecture has received much attention in recent years. In these essays, Smith ...
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Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian ...
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A history of the influence of communication technologies on Western architectural theory. The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and ...
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