Focusing on the Renaissance period, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style. ...
Edited by the historian Donata Battilotti, this book leads readers to the knowledge and understanding of the work of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of ...
El catedrático de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla, Antonio Luis Ampliato, analiza los pormenores que llevaron a culminar la obra maestra ...
The existence of numerous and seemingly contradictory theories about the Dome of the Cathedral of Florence, as well as about its static function and ...
Las creaciones artísticas más grandiosas e impresionantes son precismente las que tienden a escapar a nuestra comprensión. Las admiramos y nos sentimos subyugados por ...
Filippo Brunelleschi méditait depuis de longues années, en silence, un secret dissimulé au plus profond de lui. Son génie intérieur l'alertait, par de nombreux ...
Il Rinascimento è un miracolo, un'utopia eretta dai numi tutelari dell'arte in una zona geografica incredibilmente ristretta e logorata da secolari dissonanze politiche e ...
La reflexión acerca de la utopía y la distopía -su evolución histórica, sus declinaciones contemporáneas y potencialidad futura- excede los ámbitos historiográficos o académicos. ...
Proposto al servizio di Luigi XIV come uno dei migliori architetti d'Italia da François Poerson, direttore dell'Accademia di Francia a Roma, nel 1709 il ...
Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the development of courts and court culture in much of the Italian territory. The patronage of the ...
Il ritrovamento dell'epistolario del cardinale Giovanni Francesco Gambara ha consentito di delineare il clima politico e religioso che indirizza il prelato a realizzare la ...
Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo's first biographer, said that the artist used to sketch "many designs for architecture". In fact, in the so-called "letter of employment" ...
In pre-modern Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, brick, and mortar but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means ...
