Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750
Author: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 672
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Author: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles A. Cummings
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781528252300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from A History of Architecture in Italy, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Time of Constantine to the Dawn of the Renaissance Some half dozen years ago, while engaged in assisting my friend Mr. Longfellow in the preparation of his Cyclopaedia, I found myself frequently impatient and not seldom exasperated over the difficulty of getting at any authentic and exact information concerning the con struction, design, dimensions, and history of many even of the most important and well-known buildings of mediaeval Italy. French writers, German writers, Italian writers, English writers, had passed over the ground, one after another, and had set down with serene confidence their facts and their theories. Unfortunately in many cases their facts and in most cases their theories did not agree, and may be said to have formed as a rule the subject of lively and too often acrid personal controversy, which, however entertaining to the reader, is seldom instructive to the student. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Terry Kirk
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2005-06-02
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781568984360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical past into the 10 modern era challenges our understanding of both the resilience of tradition and the elasticity of modernity. We have a tendency when imagining Italy to look to a rather distant and definitely premodern setting. The ancient forum, medieval cloisters,baroque piazzas,and papal palaces constitute our ideal itinerary of Italian civilization. The Campo of Siena,Saint Peter’s,all of Venice and San Gimignano satisfy us with their seemingly unbroken panoramas onto historical moments untouched by time;but elsewhere modern intrusions alter and obstruct the view to the landscapes of our expectations. As seasonal tourist or seasoned historian,we edit the encroachments time and change have wrought on our image of Italy. The learning of history is always a complex task,one that in the Italian environment is complicated by the changes wrought everywhere over the past 250 years. Culture on the peninsula continues to evolve with characteristic vibrancy. Italy is not a museum. To think of it as such—as a disorganized yet phenomenally rich museum unchanging in its exhibits—is to misunderstand the nature of the Italian cultural condition and the writing of history itself.
Author: Charles Amos Cummings
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Published: 1901
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780300079395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 will also include color illustrations for the first time. This is the first book in the three volume survey.
Author: Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780670131464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 15th-century Florence, Brunelleschi's buildings and Alberti's treatise first established the principles of Italian Renaissance architecture in practice and theory. This survey ranges from Brunelleschi's dome for the Florence Cathedral to the works of Bramante and Leonardo in the Quattrocento.
Author: T. W. West
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780340094310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Amos Cummings
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781290897556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Charles Amos Cummings
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charlotte R. Potts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1108845282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.