Architecture - History - Renaissance

The story of the hundred-year evolution of Portmeirion, a unique and captivating Italianate village on the coast of North Wales Founded in 1926 by Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978), Portmeirion expanded from a hotel into a holiday village of colourful buildings and subtropical gardens...

"The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy" offers a comprehensive exploration of the architectural achievements during one of history's most influential periods. Authored by William J. Anderson, this volume meticulously examines the defining characteristics, innovations, and key figures of the Renaissance architectural movement across...

How might we understand early modern sexuality prior to contemporary interpretations of sexuality? What does the sex life of James VI and I tell us about the history of sexuality?Jason O'Toole explores the network of intimacy which structured itself around King James VI and...

The Brothel and Beyond deepens our understanding of women's engagement in urban life through a close study of Venice's sex trade. Centering questions of gender, agency, and mobility, it reveals how sex workers were embedded in the social and spatial fabric of the city.From...

For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later Mexico City, buttheir responses were about more than just engineering. What might seem like straightforward hydraulic projects emerge, under rigorous examination, as complex intersections of visual cultures...

Hierarchies of the household: how Palladio composed his iconic villas for collective livingVisiting the villas of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-80), one inevitably asks oneself how people actually occupied them. Palladio conceived his villas as "small towns" (piccole città) that formed a single unit...

Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in Italy, by Corrado Ricci, offers a detailed exploration of the Baroque style as it manifested across Italy. Ricci examines the key architectural achievements and sculptural innovations of the 17th and early 18th centuries, providing rich historical context and insightful...

An acclaimed historian of Europe explores one of the world's most iconic buildings and the monarch who created it Few buildings have played so central a role in Spain's history as the monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and imposing--even forbidding--in...

An illustrated history of architecture design in Europe from the ancient world to the early Enlightenment. Intended to be a reference work on the planning, construction, materials and principles of design through the ages. Volume III covers the early Italian Rennaissance to the English...

Brunelleschi's basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence was not only a product of creative genius, but also of communal bureaucracy, socio-economic traditions, human and financial resources, factionalism, and rivalry. This complex network of forces behind the monument serves as testimony to the determination and...

Diese Publikation eröffnet neue Einblicke in die Geschichte der römischen Basilika San Giovanni in Laterano. Sie rekonstruiert die mutma liche Mitwirkung des bedeutenden Oratorianers und Kardinals Cesare Baronio an der Entwicklung eines komplexen ikonografischen Programms für das Innere des Querschiffs dieses bekannten römischen Kirchenbaus...

Florence's foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. Its progressive approach to caring for abandoned children was matched by the iconic architectural form designed one of the period's leading architects, Filippo Brunelleschi. Did reality...

The Medici: Godfathers of the RenaissanceThe family that shaped art, power, and the birth of the modern worldIn an age when Europe was awakening to the brilliance of art, science, and humanism, one family name rose above all others-The Medici. More than bankers or...

This book should be your companion if you plan to journey to Rome for the Year of Jubilee 2025. It reveals the history of Rome through the eyes of a scholar/pilgrim and poet/essayist as he investigates and illuminates the ruins, the churches, the piazzas,...

The contributions include Arnold Victor Coonin, Preface and Acknowledgments; Debra Pincus, "Like a Good Shepherd" A Tribute to Sarah Blake McHam; Amy R. Bloch, Perspective and Narrative in the Jacob and Esau Panel of Lorenzo Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise"; David Boffa, Sculptors' Signatures and...

Through a careful description of its architecture, paintings and sculptures, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Villa Barbaro at Maser, one of the most famous masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Commissioned and designed by Daniele Barbaro, a leading humanist of the...

A radical new perspective on the dynamics of urban life in Renaissance Italy The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations are laid bare and...

1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter's Basilica, designed by Michelangelo, is fractured and threatened with collapse. The dome is the pride of Italy and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. And no one knows how to fix it. This engaging...

Palladio was the first to provide a visual representation of an ancient concrete walling construction method using removable wooden formwork, which he termed maniera riempiuta, a method since used by modern and contemporary architects. The current study traces Palladio' s creative reading of Vitruvius,...

Author: Peter EisenmanISBN-10: 0262553716ISBN-13: 9780262553711Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 248Format: Paperback

This book presents a collection of photographs and measured drawings of Renaissance architecture in central and northern Spain. The book covers a range of styles and structures, offering valuable insights into the region's architectural history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

These volumes complete the catalogue of the Sangallo workshop drawings collection housed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484-1546) and his workshop were involved in St. Peter's Basilica, the Palazzo Farnese, and Villa Madama in Rome; vast fortification projects...

In the middle of the sixteenth century, humanist Jacopo Bonfadio referred to gardens as "a third nature," as distinct from the landscapes of agriculture and habitation or the primordial if notional wilderness. This idea, newly resonant today in the age of climate change, elevated...

Why did artists include prominent architectural settings in their narrative paintings? Why did they labour over specific, highly innovative structural solutions? Why did they endeavour to design original ornamental motifs which brought together sculptural, painterly and architectural approaches, as well as showcasing their understanding...

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He famously traveled to Italy and...

A critical biography of the quietly inventive Renaissance architect. Filippo Brunelleschi is at once the most famous and most misunderstood architect of the Renaissance. The founding architect of the movement that led the way to modernity, his originality was not expressed in words or...

I wrote this book for two audiences: teachers and students. For fencing teachers, maybe you've spent years teaching the Bolognese art and are looking for a new perspective or a guide to a different weapon. Maybe you've taught Italian rapier or German longsword and...

A revelatory exploration of a crucial Renaissance art form--military architecture--and its unexpected connections with contemporary aesthetic, cultural, and technological innovations Urban fortifications were the most colossal artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance. Celebrated sculptors, painters, and architects such as Michelangelo, Bramante, Leonardo, Francesco Paciotto,...

'[A] page-turning story' - Laurie Maguire, Times Literary Supplement 'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country Life Now available in paperback, Richard's Schoch's compelling history of Shakespeare's birthplace reveals the value we place on the building and on...

The contributions include Arnold Victor Coonin, Preface and Acknowledgments; Debra Pincus, "Like a Good Shepherd" A Tribute to Sarah Blake McHam; Amy R. Bloch, Perspective and Narrative in the Jacob and Esau Panel of Lorenzo Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise"; David Boffa, Sculptors' Signatures and...

There were those who doubted whether NationalGuard Units could hold up like regular U.S. Army unitsin wartime. Routinely assigned missions where theodds were stacked heavily against them, the 175thRegiment-29th Infantry Division not only silenced thedoubters, they went on to gain a reputation as one...

This book looks at the major buildings and gardens of the Italian Renaissance.Author: Frederick KieferISBN-10: 1839992794ISBN-13: 9781839992797Publisher: Anthem PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 318Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

This book looks at the major buildings and gardens of the Italian Renaissance.Author: Frederick KieferISBN-10: 1839992808ISBN-13: 9781839992803Publisher: Anthem PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

Piero della Francesca and the Baptism of the New World reveals that heliocentrism, the modern day planetary system and the existence of the American continent is referred to in Piero's work. As a new age was dawning for humankind, these revolutionary ideas were suspected...

Included in this indispensable book are some of the most significant documents tracing Freemasonry from its early operative roots to the early collections defining the seeds of Speculative Freemasonry. Included are: "Edict of Rothari"; "The Regius Manuscript"; "The Matthew Cooke Manuscript"; "The Torgau Ordinances";...

One of the most troublesome questions about Utopia is Thomas More's reason for writing it. Some of the ideas in it such as the ease of divorce euthanasia and both married priests and female priests seem to be polar opposites of his beliefs and...

One of the most troublesome questions about Utopia is Thomas More's reason for writing it. Some of the ideas in it such as the ease of divorce euthanasia and both married priests and female priests seem to be polar opposites of his beliefs and...

This book presents a collection of photographs and measured drawings of Renaissance architecture in central and northern Spain. The book covers a range of styles and structures, offering valuable insights into the region's architectural history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but driven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external exploration and colonization, accompanied by...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: H. Cliford SmithISBN-10: 1406772739ISBN-13: 9781406772739Publisher:...

Ruskin's respected treatise on architectural methods and style is presented here complete, with all of the original edition's images.Writing in the 1840s, John Ruskin set out his architectural beliefs. A man of deep religiosity, Ruskin was convinced that Gothic architecture was at the very...

This book is a comprehensive survey of the architecture of the English Renaissance, from the Tudor period to the Georgian era. Reginald Theodore Blomfield provides detailed analysis of the style and construction of many of England's most iconic buildings, including churches, country houses, and...

Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a bird's-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an international hub of trade, art, and culture. An artistic and cartographic masterpiece of the Renaissance, the View depicts Venice...

"There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on an Italian vacation-not only for its information and vision but for such pleasant reminders as that the citizens of Treviso carried...

This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was written at a time when St. Mark's...

We all look to our past to define our present, but we don't always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subsequent events. It's easy to forget that the Dutch dominated the world's oceans and trade in the seventeenth century when...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period fostered an emerging sense...

How the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture--and justified their right to rule. In Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture, Indra Kagis McEwen argued that Vitruvius's first-century BC treatise De architectura was informed by imperial ideology, giving...

The Ottoman Renaissance, which took place during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the cities of Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul, produced an extraordinary array of artworks in the form of monumental imperial architecture, Iznik tiles, calligraphy, and illustrated manuscripts. Notwithstanding this exceptional artistic production,...

In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not where he wrote any...