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Book International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture

Download or read book International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paper Palaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vaughan Hart
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300075304
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Paper Palaces written by Vaughan Hart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays examining early editions of Vitruvius' writings and all the major Renaissance architectural treatises by authors such as Alberti, Di Giorgio, Colonna, Serlio, and Palladio. The authors look at the significance of the treaty in the Renaissance, and trace its decline in the late 17th century.

Book Local antiquities  local identities

Download or read book Local antiquities local identities written by Kathleen Christian and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'. Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants.

Book Alphabetical Finding List

Download or read book Alphabetical Finding List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Serial Titles

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emulating Antiquity

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  • Author : David Hemsoll
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-05
  • ISBN : 0300225768
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Emulating Antiquity written by David Hemsoll and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope--first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century--that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.

Book Periodical Title and Abbreviation by Title

Download or read book Periodical Title and Abbreviation by Title written by Leland G. Alkire and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 is arranged alphabetically by periodical title, rather than by abbreviation.

Book Siena

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  • Author : Fabrizio Nevola
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300126785
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Siena written by Fabrizio Nevola and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together social, political, economic and architectural history, this book explores the role of key patrons in Siena's urban projects, including Pope Pius II Piccolomini and his family, and the quasi-despot Pandolfo Petrucci.

Book Private Collectors in Mantua  1500 1630

Download or read book Private Collectors in Mantua 1500 1630 written by Guido Rebecchini and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 2002 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of private art collections recorded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Mantua. This work seeks to show how the collectors' taste changed during this period and how these changes are reflected in the collections' display, and also seeks to contribute to the understanding of the original context of works of art in sixteenth and early seventeenth century private houses in a courtly city.

Book Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture  Books VI VII of  Tutte l opere d architettura et prospetiva  with  Castrametation of the Romans  and  The Extraordinary book of doors

Download or read book Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture Books VI VII of Tutte l opere d architettura et prospetiva with Castrametation of the Romans and The Extraordinary book of doors written by Sebastiano Serlio and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastiano Serlio was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century. The author of the first wide-ranging illustrated book on architecture, he produced a complete set of model designs as well as practical solutions for everyday design problems. This volume, the second in a two-volume series of Serlio's entire works, presents the previously unpublished sixth book, the seventh book, and, as well as The Extraordinary Book of Doors, his little-known Castrametation of the Romans, each of which demonstrates Serlio's sophisticated design theories. This is the first translation of Serlio's later works and the first time that the long lost sixth volume has been united with its companion works and restored to its intended position. The book also includes an introduction and notes by translators Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks that demonstrate Serlio's significance within the history of architecture and the importance of these neglected texts to our understanding of Serlio's work.

Book Learning From Palladio

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  • Author : Branko Mitrovic
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2004-05-04
  • ISBN : 9780393731163
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Learning From Palladio written by Branko Mitrovic and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrea Palladio's works - the Basilica, Palazzo Chiericati, and Villa Rotonda in Vicenza; Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese; the Redentore Church in Venice; and numerous other buildings - have never ceased to attract the attention of architects, historians, and the general public. Arguably the most influential Renaissance architect, Palladio and his works have been examined in countless publications. In this book, Branko Mitrovic rethinks traditionally held views of Palladio's design theory. He explores Palladio's approach to spatial composition, facade design, detailing, proportions, and use of the classical orders; discusses Platonist influences in Palladio's design; and uncovers pertinent aspects of Palladio's design procedures and methodology. Mitrovic provides a synthesis of earlier Palladian scholarship and emphasizes the importance of the history of design theory to the understanding of the architectural works of the part. Finally, he offers an insightful view of the application of Palladio's Renaissance design principles in twenty-first-century architecture, inspiring, through Palladianism, the architecture of the future." "Nearly 200 photographs and illustrations show-case a broad selection of Palladian structures and styles, supplemented by digital renderings, views, and site plans. Throughout, Mitrovic's comprehensive study reveals what architectural historians, practicing architects, and students can learn from Palladio today."--Jacket.

Book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius

Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.

Book Architecture  Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories  1450   1750

Download or read book Architecture Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories 1450 1750 written by Dr Nebahat Avcioglu and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Deborah Howard’s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice, the essays here examine the connections and rapports between art and identity through the discussion of patronage, space (domestic and ecclesiastical), and dissemination of architectural knowledge as well as models within Venice, its territories and beyond.

Book  Architecture  Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories  1450 750

Download or read book Architecture Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories 1450 750 written by Nebahat Avcioglu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and practices entangled in identity formations. This is particularly true when seen through a city as forceful and splendid as Venice. The essays in this volume investigate these connections between art and identity, through discussions of patronage, space and the dissemination of architectural models and knowledge in Venice, its territories and beyond. They celebrate Professor Deborah Howard?s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice. Based on an examination and re-interpretation of a wide range of archival material and primary sources, the contributing authors approach the notion of identity in its many guises: as self-representation, as strong sub-currents of spatial strategies, as visual and semantic discourses, and as political and imperial aspirations. Employing interdisciplinary modes of interpretation, these studies offer ground-breaking analyses of canonical sites and works of art, diverse groups of patrons, as well as the life and oeuvre of leading architects such as Jacopo Sansovino and Andrea Palladio. In so doing, they link together citizens and nobles, past and present, the real and the symbolic, space and sound, religion and power, the city and its parts, Venice and the Stato da Mar, the Serenissima and the Sublime Port.

Book Irresistible North

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Di Robilant
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-05-24
  • ISBN : 0307596621
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Irresistible North written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among geographers in the following centuries. This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant’s serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in Venice in 1558 by the Renaissance statesman Nicolò Zen: the text and its fascinating nautical map re-created the travels of two of the author’s ancestors, brothers who explored the North Atlantic in the 1380s and 1390s. Di Robilant set out to discover why later, in the nineteenth century, the Zens’ account came under attack as one of the greatest frauds in geographical history. Was their map—and even their journey—partially or perhaps entirely faked? In Irresistible North the author follows the Zens’ route from the Faeroes to Shetland to Iceland and Greenland, greeted by characters who help unravel the enigmas in the Zens’ account. The medieval world comes to life as di Robilant guides us through a landscape enlivened by the ghosts of power-hungry earls and bishops of the old Norwegian realm and magical tales of hot springs and smoking mountains. In this rich telling—an original work of history and a travel book in one—the magnetism of the north draws us in as powerfully as it drew the Zen brothers more than six centuries ago.