Johannes Vermeer Planificateur Annuel 2020
by Parbleu Carnets de Notes
This stunning book offers insider access to Lake Maggiore's Borromeo Palace, a resplendent achievement of baroque Italian architecture. This is a perfect volume for classic Italian art and architecture lovers. In a unique natural setting--the Isola Bella island on Lake Maggiore, surrounded by the Alps--stands the sumptuous palace built, and still owned, by the Borromeo family. Photographs guide the readers through the halls of the palace, which overlooks the lake and offers charming views. The...
Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that became fashionable later in the 18th century, English formal gardens of the 17th century displayed important design innovations that reflected a broad rethinking of how gardens functioned within society. With insights into how the Protestant nobility planned and used their formal gardens, the domesticatio...
Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy. He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions.
Die Meister der Augsburger Baukunst (Schriften aus Altaugsburg)
by Eugen Hausladen
Der Bauhistoriker und Architekt Eugen Hausladen (1894-1936) widmete sich Zeit seines Lebens der Augsburger Baukunst. Er erlebte die Baugeschichte der Stadt noch in ihrer ganzen Vielschichtigkeit vor der verheerenden Zerstoerung des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Fassaden der Burgerhauser, die Kirchenraume und Festsale spiegelten fur ihn die Geschichte der lokalen Handwerkskunst ebenso wieder wie die Einflusse europaischer Architekturschulen. Bis heute haben seine Texte nichts von ihrer unschatzbaren B...
Le Luxembourg: Son Histoire Domaniale, Architecturale, Decorative Et Anecdotique (Arts)
by Arthur Hustin
The new towns of Bordeaux and Edinburgh were the two largest urban expansions in terms of area within Europe at the time of their development. Developing almost simultaneously between 1770 and 1830 as metropolitan residential districts, they spanned the transition from Early Modern urban planning to the urban development of bourgeois society. They can serve as examples of the shift from the classic ideal city to the 19th-century city of tenement blocks. In spite of this relevance, the two locati...
Story of Baroque Architecture
by Claudia Zanlungo and Daniela Tarabra
Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features Baroque's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings, and plans. The book offers a general introduction to Baroque, discusses the characteristics of the style, and the commonly used techniques and materials. Originating in the late sixteenth century and continuing to the early 1900s, Baroque swept the globe, f...
In 1600 Rome was the center of the artistic world. This fascinating book offers a new look at the art and architecture of the great Baroque city at this time of major innovation—especially in painting, largely owing to the presence of Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) and Caravaggio (1571–1610). Rome was a magnet for artists and architects from all over Europe; they came to study the remains of antiquity and the works of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante. The sheer variety of artists working in th...
Almost 200 years of Baroque art are presented in striking images and thought-provoking text - capturing the theatrical pathos, illusionistic devices, and interplay of different styles that made 17th-century and 18th-century European culture extravagant, showy, and even pretentious. This is an in-depth study of moving works of art from various European countries that exposes the sensual beauty of these objects as well as their allegorical representation of religious beliefs.
Formation is ideal and utopian thinking, whereas Transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. Are the two mutually exclusive? Or do they exist in conversation, a constant back-and-forth, push-and-pull between the idealised and the pragmatic? This book examines the dialectical relation of Formation and Transformation in the creation of the city. Taking Rome as its central case study, it develops a contextual theory of urban development that incorporates Ital...
This highly illustrated book contextualises the Queen's House within its setting of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site. From its origins as a royal residence designed by Inigo Jones, to its use by the Royal Naval Asylum and Greenwich Hospital School and more recently as the home to the National Maritime Museum's vast painting collection, the book explores the architectural significance of the house and provides an insight into its cultural and social uses. Beautifully illustrated througho...
Schloss Ludwigsburg Und Die Formierung Eines Reichsfurstlichen Gestaltungsanspruchs
by Ulrike Seeger
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England....
Women, Architecture and Building in the East of Ireland, C.1790-1840 (Maynooth Studies in Local History)
by Ruth Thorpe
Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy
by Nadir Lahiji
Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture. Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization...
Hampton Court Palace, to the south-west of London, is one of the most famous and magnificent buildings in Britain. The original palace was begun by Cardinal Wolsey, but it soon attracted the attention of his Tudor king and became the centre of royal and political life for the next 200 years. In this new, lavishly illustrated history, the stories of the people who have inhabited the palace over the last five centuries take centre stage. Here Henry VIII and most of his six wives held court, Shakes...
Schwetzingen Palace Gardens (Fuhrer staatliche Schloesser und Garten Baden-Wurttemberg)
by Hartmut Troll, Andreas Foerderer, and Uta Schmitt
The Silbergraue Fuhrer (Silver Grey Guide) presents an outline of the garden's history, describes its structures and the architects behind them and analyses the garden's significance as a cultural monument. The Schwetzingen Palace Gardens constitute a veritable showpiece of the European art of laying out gardens. A magnificent park forming the centrepiece of the elector's summer residence was created within a period of thirty years under Elector Carl Theodor, his director of buildings and gar...