Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture, 1580-1630
Author: Howard Hibbard
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 428
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Author: Howard Hibbard
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 428
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Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 434
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ulrich Fürst
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9783930698608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries that Rome is rightly called the 'eternal city'. Rome is eternal above all because it was always young, always 'in its prime'. Here the buildings that defined the West appeared over more than 2000 years, here the history of European architecture was written. The foundations were laid even in ancient Roman times, when the first attempts were made to design interiors and thus make space open to experience as something physical. And at that time the Roman architects also started to develop building types that are still valid today, thus creating the cornerstone of later Western architecture. In it Rome's primacy remained unbroken -- whether it was with old St Peter's as the first medieval basilica or new St. Peter's as the building in which Bramante and Michelangelo developed the High Renaissance, or with works by Bernini and Borromini whose rich and lucid spatial forms were to shape Baroque as far as Vienna, Bohemia and Lower Franconia, and also with Modern buildings, of which there are many unexpected pearls to be found in Rome. All this is comprehensible only if it is presented historically, i. e. in chronological sequence, and so the guide has not been arranged topographically as usual but chronologically.This means that one is not led in random sequence from a Baroque building to an ancient or a modern one, but the historical development is followed successively. Every epoch is preceded by an introduction that identifies its key features. This produces a continuous, lavishly illustrated history of the architecture of Rome -- and thus at the same time of the whole of the West. Practical handling is guaranteed by an alphabetical index and detailed maps, whose information does not just immediately illustrate the historical picture, but also makes it possible to choose a personal route through history.
Author: Mary Hollingsworth
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-30
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 9004415440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive overview of its subject in any language. Its thirty-five essays explain who cardinals were, what they did in Rome and beyond, for the Church and for wider society.
Author: KelleyHelmstutler DiDio
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1351559508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals the similar challenges sculptors still encounter today as they procure, manufacture and transport their works.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0870993216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 0521809320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lisa Pon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1316300668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forlì, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of Forlì carried that print - now known as the Madonna of the Fire - into their cathedral, where two centuries later a new chapel was built to enshrine it. In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the Madonna of the Fire's cultural biography: when ink was impressed onto paper at a now-unknown date; when that sheet was recognized by Forlì's people as miraculous; when it was enshrined in various tabernacles and chapels in the cathedral; when it or one of its copies was - and still is - carried in procession. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.
Author: Sarah McPhee
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300089820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1638, Gianlorenzo Bernini began the ambitious architectural project of designing and constructing massive twin bell towers atop St. Peter's basilica. But the project failed spectacularly. This volume tells the story of the bell towers, presenting both visual and documentary evidence.
Author: Spiro Kostof
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780520226043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Architect traces the role of the profession across the centuries and in different cultures, showing the architect both as designer and as mediator between the client and the builder.