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Dieses eBook: "Der Cicerone: Eine Anleitung zum Genuß der Kunstwerke Italiens" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Der Cicerone: Eine Anleitung zum Genuß der Kunstwerke Italiens ist ein 1855 veröffentlichtes Werk...

Questo volume raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno internazionale tenutosi a Fondi nell’ottobre 2013, che si poneva come obiettivo prioritario quello di far conoscere le straordinarie testimonianze storico-artistiche di età medievale emerse nell’ultimo quindicennio nella città di Fondi e nel suo...

Der Cicerone ist ein 1855 veröffentlichtes Werk von Jacob Burckhardt, in dem er die italienische Kunstwelt von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart schildert. Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818-1897) war ein Schweizer Kulturhistoriker mit Schwerpunkt Kunstgeschichte. Burckhardt widersprach entschieden geschichtsphilosophischen...

The illustrated book gives historical and cultural background of Asian Art. It introduces the reader to Asian Art major styles, media, statues, buildings and artists.FEATURES:- Fully illustrated- Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms. - Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or...

What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture – sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a...

  ARCHITECTURE seems to me to be the most wonderful of all the arts. We may not love it as much as others, when we are young perhaps we cannot do so, because it is so great and so grand; but at any time of life one can see that in Architecture some of the most marvellous achievements of men are displayed....

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant that Islamic and Western art being perceived as inherently...

La pérennité de l’art contemporain et des arts médiatiques tout comme celle du patrimoine architectural moderne posent des problèmes semblables du fait de la fragilité de bien des œuvres, de l’indétermination formelle de certaines, voire de leur nature éphémère, ou de l’obsolescence...

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart...

The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected...

"These beautiful plates feature wonderful aspects of this revolutionary architecture including grand staircases, wrought iron balconies, ornate mantels, and intricate storefronts. Bright colours, floral and insect motifs, and fancy apartment facades are also shown. Anyone interested in art and...

Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style...

THE history, the features, and the most famous examples of European architecture, during a period extending from the rise of the Gothic, or pointed, style in the twelfth century to the general depression which overtook the Renaissance style at the close of the eighteenth, form the subject of this...

The leading art critic of the Victorian era, John Ruskin created a large body of work, writing influential essays and treatises on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy, to name but a few. This comprehensive eBook presents the...