How does a Morisco enter the Spanish nobility? This book reveals the cultural strategies through which a family of conve......more

This book explores the Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, a relatively well-known yet poorly understood structure. The cathedral......more

The story of the hundred-year evolution of Portmeirion, a unique and captivating Italianate village on the coast of Nort......more

Diese Publikation eröffnet neue Einblicke in die Geschichte der römischen Basilika San Giovanni in Laterano. Sie rekonst......more

The Brothel and Beyond deepens our understanding of women’s engagement in urban life through a close study of Venice’s s......more

How might we understand early modern sexuality prior to contemporary interpretations of sexuality? What does the sex lif......more

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 subseq......more

This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centurie......more

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and archite......more

Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together o......more

The French Hôtel, an aristocratic Paris townhouse, is to the art of the plan as the Venetian Palace is to the art of the......more

This book offers new scholarly perspectives on diverse roles that gardens played in Italian Renaissance culture as sites......more

Modernists believed that "form follows function." Form Follows Fuel shows that in fact energy has been the biggest influ......more

Modernists believed that "form follows function." Form Follows Fuel shows that in fact energy has been the biggest influ......more

How people can shape a city’s spaces and how a city can shape its people...more

A critical biography of the quietly inventive Renaissance architect. Filippo Brunelleschi is at once the most famous and......more

Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architect......more

"Early Renaissance Architecture in England" offers a detailed historical and descriptive account of English architecture......more

Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in Italy, by Corrado Ricci, offers a detailed exploration of the Baroque style as it ......more

"The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy" offers a comprehensive exploration of the architectural achievements duri......more

"The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy" offers a comprehensive exploration of the architectural achievements duri......more

Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in Italy, by Corrado Ricci, offers a detailed exploration of the Baroque style as it ......more

The Renaissance of Roman Architecture, Volume 1, by Thomas Graham Jackson, explores the revival and transformation of cl......more

In Beyond Leonardo, Avio takes us on a brilliant and enlightening exploration of the very heart and soul of Leonardo da ......more

A revelatory exploration of a crucial Renaissance art form--military architecture--and its unexpected connections with c......more

This book should be your companion if you plan to journey to Rome for the Year of Jubilee 2025. It reveals the history o......more

Explore the enduring beauty and historical significance of Italian Renaissance architecture with Charles Herbert Moore’s......more

Explore the architectural wonders of the Renaissance with "Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 6,......more

Journey through the splendor of Italy’s past with "Romance of Roman Villas: The Renaissance," a captivating exploration ......more

Journey through the splendor of Italy’s past with "Romance of Roman Villas: The Renaissance," a captivating exploration ......more

This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy Ho......more

This book provides an insight into the history and beauty of Palazzo Medici Riccardi, one of the most important palaces ......more

Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, ......more

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Elizabeth I, who reigned for 44 years as Queen of England, has become one of the most well-known and recognisable monarc......more

There were those who doubted whether National Guard Units could hold up like regular U.S. Army units in wartime. Routine......more

Palaces, villas and churches. These were the highlights of my first visit to Italy. I took a lot of photos and looked fo......more

Palaces, villas and churches. These were the highlights of my first visit to Italy. I took a lot of photos and looked fo......more

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The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth ed......more

Focusing on three representative fresco cycles, this book reconsiders the painter-architect figure as an earlier phenome......more

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement......more

Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architect......more

"[A] page-turning story" - Times Literary Supplement "Eye-opening" - Michael Billington "A detailed and highly compellin......more

Through a careful visual analysis of its architecture, paintings and sculptures, this book offers the first comprehensiv......more

A classic account of the villa--from ancient Rome to the twentieth century--by "the preeminent American scholar of Itali......more

This book is a pioneering study of Elizabethan architecture, written at a time when the field was still in its infancy. ......more

This book is a comprehensive survey of the architecture of the English Renaissance, from the Tudor period to the Georgia......more

This book presents a collection of photographs and measured drawings of Renaissance architecture in central and northern......more

This book provides a detailed look at the architecture of the Renaissance in France. Written by W. H. Ward, a noted expe......more

This elegant monograph examines the history of the cathedral in the Croatian city of Sibenik, considered one of the most......more

This book explores the evolution of the arts of building decoration and garden design under classical influence in Franc......more

This elegant monograph examines the history of the cathedral in the Croatian city of Sibenik, considered one of the most......more

This book explores the evolution of the arts of building decoration and garden design under classical influence in Franc......more

This book presents a collection of photographs and measured drawings of Renaissance architecture in central and northern......more

This book provides a detailed look at the architecture of the Renaissance in France. Written by W. H. Ward, a noted expe......more

W. H. Ward explores the development of the arts of building decoration and garden design in France during the Renaissanc......more

This volume completes the catalogue of the Sangallo workshop drawings collection housed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florenc......more

Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technologica......more

How the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture--and justifi......more

This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centurie......more

Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together o......more

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni proved to be one of the greatest painters, sculptors, architects and poets of......more

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An in-depth study of a neglected aspect of architectural interest Only few pre-industrial manufacturing buildings surviv......more

Cervantes’ Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes’ prose fiction. At a time when a pande......more

The book reviews the history of Arlington Church and Churchyard in Sussex, and gives the full record of all the inscript......more

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The importance of place - as a unique spatial identity - has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the ......more

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A luxurious and definitive exploration of how and why the Renaissance flourished in Italy for two centuries. The idea of......more

The first comprehensive publication about the remarkable Sudeley Castle, tracing over 1,000 years of illustrious history......more

Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Mona......more

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