Architecture - History - Renaissance

How does a Morisco enter the Spanish nobility? This book reveals the cultural strategies through which a family of converts from Islam to Christianity overcame limpieza de sangre laws, rose in social status, avoided King Philip III's Morisco expulsions of 1609-14, and achieved a...

This volume tells the story of European architecture in the 'middle ages' - from the destruction by northern barbarians of Rome and the urban society it had fostered to the rediscovery of Classical values and the rebirth of humanism in 15th-century Italy.This period saw...

"English Homes, Period III Vol II; Late Tudor & Early Stuart, 1558 - 1649" is an authoritative and visually rich examination of British domestic architecture during a pinnacle of its development. Spanning the years from the Elizabethan era through the reign of King Charles...

This book explores the Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, a relatively well-known yet poorly understood structure. The cathedral's design, construction and interior decoration display both Safavid and Armenian architectural and artistic features. Notably, it differs significantly from Armenian architectural and wall painting traditions prior to...

The importance of place - as a unique spatial identity - has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the 'genius loci', or spirit of place, evoked not only the location of a distinct atmosphere or environment, but also the protection of this location,...

Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, rather than segmented,...

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...

Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution of...

The cross-cultural exchange of ideas that flourished in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries profoundly affected European and Islamic society. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires considers the role and place of gardens and landscapes in the broader context of...

In September 1666, a fire sparked in a bakery on Pudding Lane grew until it had destroyed four-fifths of central London. The rebuilding efforts that followed not only launched the careers of some of London's most famous architects, but also transformed Londoners' relationship to...

In Beyond Leonardo, Avio takes us on a brilliant and enlightening exploration of the very heart and soul of Leonardo da Vinci. .This book is not merely a study of Leonardo; it is an invitation to awaken the latent potential within us, inspired by...

John Aubrey frs (1626-1697) was an antiquary, natural philosopher, biographer, folklorist, proto-anthropologist, travel writer, topographer, and experimental scientist. He inherited the small estate of Lower Easton Piercy, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, on the death of his father, but growing financial troubles led him into catastrophic...

The first comprehensive publication about the remarkable Sudeley Castle, tracing over 1,000 years of illustrious history from the time of King Aethelred the Unready through the castle's Tudor heyday and its 19th century restoration. Set in the beautiful Gloucestershire Cotswolds, Sudeley Castle exemplifies popular...

Does a house built of stone truly possess a soul, or is it the collective spirit of the faithful that breathes life into the cold marble?For over six hundred years, a mountain of white stone has risen from the plains of Lombardy, defying the...

The Royal Palace of Palermo, today seat of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, is one of the symbols of Sicily and of the rich Sicilian and national patrimony. Formerly a fortress, then royal palace and finally building of government, the palace is today an extraordinary...

Unprecedented in scope - like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Mannerism - this sixth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the development of architecture and decoration in the 17th and early 18th centuries - particularly the transformation of rationalist Classical...

In about 35-25 B.C.E., the Roman architect Vitruvius produced his encyclopedic ten-book summary of the principles of Hellenistic architecture, De architectura (On Architecture). These ideas have stimulated architects ever since. In the mid-16th century, the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) and the humanist Daniele Barbaro...

Does the soul not yearn for a place where the veil between this world and the next is pulled aside? In a time when the sacred is often trampled by the noise of the modern age, there remains a holy meadow in Italy where...

Livy wrote that two brothers, Romulus and Remus, set out to build the city that we now know as Rome. Romulus, who had murdered his brother, decided on the current site of the Palatine Hill. From here rose a city that was not only...

Utopia is Thomas More's enduring work of political philosophy describing an imagined island society organised around reason, communal responsibility, and social harmony.Presented as a traveller's account related by the fictional Raphael Hythloday, the work examines the institutions, customs, and daily life of the island...

Discover the architectural treasures and historical landmarks of Kingston upon Thames in this captivating guide.Explore the rich history of Kingston upon Thames through its most significant buildings, from ancient churches to modern structures. Julian McCarthy, a qualified tour guide, takes you on a chronological...

In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Florence unexpectedly defeated Milanese forces near the town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine public life and how it could have triggered the...

St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle stands as a masterpiece of Gothic architecture and a cornerstone of British royal tradition. The Romance of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle explores the rich history of this sacred site, detailing its construction, artistic elements, and its enduring...

The book reviews the history of Arlington Church and Churchyard in Sussex, and gives the full record of all the inscriptions on the site, together with plans, photos and indexes. An invaluable resource for local amd family history. Arlington is an enigma: an unusually...

From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the...

Santa Maria di Firenze, an ancient, venerable Benedictine abbey (called the Badia) located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of Anne Leader's new book. In 1418, 17 Benedictine monks journeyed to Florence from Padua to save one of their order's oldest houses...

Dies ist die dritte, erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage des Rom-Reiseführers. Neu ist der QR-Code auf der Rückseite, der zu Google Maps von Rom führt und alle besprochenen Sehenswürdigkeiten anzeigt. Neben präzisen Standortinformationen erleichtert diese Funktion die Routenplanung und bietet zusätzliche, aktuelle Informationen wie Öffnungszeiten,...

Architecture Gothic And Renaissance This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1....

Celebrating the city goes behind the scenes of early modern celebrations. Moving from splendid coronations to courtyard bonfires, it offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. In a major departure from existing scholarship, it uses the widest range of...

Academic architectural education started with the inauguration of the Académie d'Architecture on 3 December 1671 in France. It was the first institution to be devoted solely to the study of architecture, and its school was the first dedicated to the explicit training of architectural...

W. H. Ward explores the development of the arts of building decoration and garden design in France during the Renaissance era. Focusing on the classical influence that shaped these styles, this book provides a rich history of the emergence of French architecture and design...

Some of the most famous plays in the English language were performed on the stage of the Rose theater, which stood on the Bankside in Elizabethan London. Henslowe's Rose is the first full-length study of this important theater. Rhodes gives as full an account...

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents...

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...

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...

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