Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most outstanding intellectuals of the Renaissance. An entirely self taught intellectual giant, he was endlessly curious about ...
This first survey of building types ever written remains an essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance ...
Including 30 miniature illustrations from "The Hasting Hours", an illuminated late-medieval manuscript from Flanders, this is a Book of Days, with floral border decorations. ...
This Stunningly Beautiful Colour-illustrated Luxury Engagement diary celebrates 1000 years of English literature, featuring unique manuscripts now in The British Library. Examples range from ...
This illuminated manuscripts engagement diary for 1999 features beautiful illustrations from The British Library's unparalleled collection of medieval manuscripts. Handsomely produced, with a doth ...
Examines the natural and artificial illumination of interior and exterior spaces and the scientific and aesthetic background to light and color theory in architecture.
This book explains, in a practical and straightforward way, the fundamental theory needed to understand the behaviour and analysis of a wide range of ...
The enormous pictorial, literary, and musical work of Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), the classic master of Art Brut, came into being exclusively during his thirty-five-year ...
From the intense and brooding Magellan and the glamorous and dashing Sir Francis Drake; to Thomas Cavendish, who set off to plunder Spain's American ...
This book represents a long-awaited, comprehensive monograph on the work of artist and sculptor Mary Miss, spanning almost 30 years of creative production. It ...
