Download or read book An Architectural Progress in the Renaissance and Baroque written by Henry A. Millon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy written by William James Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invisible City written by Helen Hills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the city's power structure. Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage. The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude. Even today, Neapolitan convents figure prominently in the city's fabric. In analyzing the architecture of these august institutions, Helen Hills skillfully reads conventual architecture as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic virgin nun, mapping out the dialectic between flesh and stone.
Download or read book The architecture of the renaissance in Italy written by William J. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Affairs Handbook Italy Supplement on cultural institutions supplementary atlas on churches museums libraries and other cultural institutions in Italy written by United States. Army Service Forces and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borromini written by Paolo Portoghesi and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpreting the Renaissance written by Manfredo Tafuri and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tafuri studies the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling readings of its various social, intellectual, and cultural contexts while providing a broad understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era. He synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centers of architectural innovation in Italy (Florence, Rome, and Venice), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century (Pope Nicholas V) to the early sixteenth century (Pope Leo X), and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo de'Medici, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, and Giulio Romano. Interpreting the Renaissance is an essential book for anyone interested in the architecture and culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 1750 written by Rudolf Wittkower and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower's text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now published in three volumes-will also include color illustrations for the first time.
Download or read book Italy Handbook for Travellers Central Italy and Rome written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italy Central Italy and Rome 10th rev ed 1890 written by Karl Baedeker (Firm : Publishers : Leipzig) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abitare la Terra n 29 2011 Dwelling on Earth written by AA. VV. and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2011-10-18T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA Luca Nicotera ALESSANDRO ANSELMI Stefania Tuzi LAKE|FLATO Maria Luna Vetrani ANTONIO MONESTIROLI Gaetano Fusco BOGDAN BOGDANOVIC Slobodan Selinkic CINO ZUCCHI Alessandra Sgueglia EMILIO CARAVATTI Pietro Fantozzi SUONI DI PIETRA / SOUNDS OF STONE Adriana Rossi CONSIDERAZIONI SULL’URBANISTICA A ROMA / THOUGHTS ABOUT URBAN PLANNING IN ROME Carlo Maltese INTERVISTA A CARLO PETRINI / INTERVIEW WITH CARLO PETRINI Mario Pisani
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calabria with Love written by Gianni Callari and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calabria, 1927. Un territorio, un paese, una famiglia, isolati tra le montagne della Sila Grande, vivono oppressi dalla tirannia di un violento Barone che vuole sottomettere i fratelli Ferruccio e Pietro. Il Barone rifi utato, attenta alla vita del fi glio di Ferruccio, Nicola di 2 anni e, a distanza di tempo, dopo una strage, adotta con prepotenza Carmen di 4 anni, nipote acquisita di Pietro, rimasta orfana. L'astuto Pietro, detto Zione, si schiera con l'arrogante Barone. Obbedisce, sopporta, gli sta vicino aspettando il momento propizio per eliminarlo. Passano gli anni. Ferruccio ritorna dalla Campagna di Russia con un piede congelato, Nicola, fi danzato con Carmen, viene minacciato di morte e non può sposare la giovane incinta. Fugge a Miami dove chiede aiuto ad un potente boss. Il tiranno dopo altri scempi, delitti e violenze, viene ucciso da Pietro. Carmen ha il bambino e con Nicola ritornato, partono per la Florida dove apriranno un ristorante "italian kitchen". Non dimenticheranno mai la Sila Grande, le clementine, la faggeta, la "viddanedda", la "'nduja", le fontane, la processione di Santa Caterina. Ricorderanno la Calabria per sempre, "with love". Romanzo ispirato ad una storia vera.
Download or read book Not Built in a Day written by George H. Sullivan and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome is a unique, unconventional guide and a deeply felt homage to Rome and its extraordinary 2,500-year history. Moving beyond the names, dates, and statistics of ordinary guidebooks, George Sullivan's eye-opening essays celebrate the special character of Rome's buildings, fountains, piazzas, streets, and ruins. From the largest landmark down to the smallest hidden gem, Not Built in a Day explores the city in comprehensive detail, offering detailed visual and historical analyses that enable readers to see and understand exactly what makes the architecture of Rome so important, influential, and fascinating. Not Built in a Day is supported by a companion website (NotBuiltInADay.com) that offers, among other features, detailed illustrative photographs for readers who want to experience the book's walking tours at home and large printable maps for readers using small electronic devices on-site in Rome.
