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Venice : the tourist maze
Venice : the tourist maze
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of(...)
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of(...)
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History until 1900, Italy
History until 1900, Italy
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May 2004, Berkeley
May 2004, Berkeley
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Venice : the tourist maze
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.
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May 2004, Berkeley
May 2004, Berkeley
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The stones of Venice
The stones of Venice
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John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in "The Stones of Venice". This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank(...)
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John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in "The Stones of Venice". This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank(...)
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History until 1900, Italy
History until 1900, Italy
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September 2003, New York / Cambridge, Mass.
September 2003, New York / Cambridge, Mass.
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The stones of Venice
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John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in "The Stones of Venice". This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."
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John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in "The Stones of Venice". This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."
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September 2003, New York / Cambridge, Mass.
September 2003, New York / Cambridge, Mass.
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This new book by Labics, one of Italy’s leading architectural firms, is devoted to the country’s architecture of public space. Squares, galleries, loggias, porticoes, and courtyards are the elements that characterize Italy’s historic towns and cities—and that make the experience of these public spaces intense and attractive. Labics sets out to explore these enchanting(...)
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This new book by Labics, one of Italy’s leading architectural firms, is devoted to the country’s architecture of public space. Squares, galleries, loggias, porticoes, and courtyards are the elements that characterize Italy’s historic towns and cities—and that make the experience of these public spaces intense and attractive. Labics sets out to explore these enchanting(...)
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October 2023
October 2023
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The architecture of public space
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This new book by Labics, one of Italy’s leading architectural firms, is devoted to the country’s architecture of public space. Squares, galleries, loggias, porticoes, and courtyards are the elements that characterize Italy’s historic towns and cities—and that make the experience of these public spaces intense and attractive. Labics sets out to explore these enchanting spaces, to analyze their history and typologies, and to document and describe them through newly produced photographs, plans, and diagrams. They offer a taxonomy of solutions that, as a whole, forms a timeless theory for the design of public spaces. ''The architecture of public ppace'' forms a captivating collection of image material that visually decodes the characteristic core elements of Italian architecture and specifies their role in the definition of public space. The volume highlights the architectural solutions from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries that produce the particular spatial quality of these urban structures and sets out how they were originally established for and are continuing to be used by the people.
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This new book by Labics, one of Italy’s leading architectural firms, is devoted to the country’s architecture of public space. Squares, galleries, loggias, porticoes, and courtyards are the elements that characterize Italy’s historic towns and cities—and that make the experience of these public spaces intense and attractive. Labics sets out to explore these enchanting spaces, to analyze their history and typologies, and to document and describe them through newly produced photographs, plans, and diagrams. They offer a taxonomy of solutions that, as a whole, forms a timeless theory for the design of public spaces. ''The architecture of public ppace'' forms a captivating collection of image material that visually decodes the characteristic core elements of Italian architecture and specifies their role in the definition of public space. The volume highlights the architectural solutions from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries that produce the particular spatial quality of these urban structures and sets out how they were originally established for and are continuing to be used by the people.
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October 2023
October 2023
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In 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) traveled from Haarlem to Rome. Pencil in hand, he discovered antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings take us on a journey through time in sixteenth-century Rome. Van Heemskerck was everywhere, from the Colosseum to the Forum Romanum to the Piazza del Campidoglio. He was one of the first artists(...)
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In 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) traveled from Haarlem to Rome. Pencil in hand, he discovered antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings take us on a journey through time in sixteenth-century Rome. Van Heemskerck was everywhere, from the Colosseum to the Forum Romanum to the Piazza del Campidoglio. He was one of the first artists(...)
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History until 1900, Italy
History until 1900, Italy
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August 2024
August 2024
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The allure of Rome: Maarten van Heemskerck draws the city, 1532
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In 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) traveled from Haarlem to Rome. Pencil in hand, he discovered antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings take us on a journey through time in sixteenth-century Rome. Van Heemskerck was everywhere, from the Colosseum to the Forum Romanum to the Piazza del Campidoglio. He was one of the first artists from north of the Alps to embark on a trip to Rome purely for the sake of art. His sketches reveal his admiration for the buildings and artworks of antiquity and the contemporary art of Raphael and Michelangelo. This magnificent volume invites the reader to discover van Heemkerck’s drawing technique, Roman topography, and the social network of the sixteenth century as well as the fascinating story of the restoration of his Roman sketchbook.
The allure of Rome: Maarten van Heemskerck draws the city, 1532
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In 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) traveled from Haarlem to Rome. Pencil in hand, he discovered antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings take us on a journey through time in sixteenth-century Rome. Van Heemskerck was everywhere, from the Colosseum to the Forum Romanum to the Piazza del Campidoglio. He was one of the first artists from north of the Alps to embark on a trip to Rome purely for the sake of art. His sketches reveal his admiration for the buildings and artworks of antiquity and the contemporary art of Raphael and Michelangelo. This magnificent volume invites the reader to discover van Heemkerck’s drawing technique, Roman topography, and the social network of the sixteenth century as well as the fascinating story of the restoration of his Roman sketchbook.
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August 2024
August 2024
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History until 1900, Italy
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Walking Rome's waters
Walking Rome's waters
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Written by a leading expert on the water infrastructure of Rome, this grand tour offers a new way to appreciate the history, geology, and character of the ancient and contemporary city. Illustrated itineraries wind through Rome’s streets, piazzas, and gardens, following the trail of water as it flows, propelled by gravity, through different neighborhoods. In addition to(...)
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Written by a leading expert on the water infrastructure of Rome, this grand tour offers a new way to appreciate the history, geology, and character of the ancient and contemporary city. Illustrated itineraries wind through Rome’s streets, piazzas, and gardens, following the trail of water as it flows, propelled by gravity, through different neighborhoods. In addition to(...)
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Walking Rome's waters
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Written by a leading expert on the water infrastructure of Rome, this grand tour offers a new way to appreciate the history, geology, and character of the ancient and contemporary city. Illustrated itineraries wind through Rome’s streets, piazzas, and gardens, following the trail of water as it flows, propelled by gravity, through different neighborhoods. In addition to mapping thirteen walking tours, Katherine Wentworth Rinne also pulls the reader underground—where hidden springs and streams still flow—to illuminate how Rome’s complex topography has been transformed since antiquity, as well as into the sky, imaginatively flying over Rome’s villas and parks to give readers a sense of the infrastructure through an aerial view.
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Written by a leading expert on the water infrastructure of Rome, this grand tour offers a new way to appreciate the history, geology, and character of the ancient and contemporary city. Illustrated itineraries wind through Rome’s streets, piazzas, and gardens, following the trail of water as it flows, propelled by gravity, through different neighborhoods. In addition to mapping thirteen walking tours, Katherine Wentworth Rinne also pulls the reader underground—where hidden springs and streams still flow—to illuminate how Rome’s complex topography has been transformed since antiquity, as well as into the sky, imaginatively flying over Rome’s villas and parks to give readers a sense of the infrastructure through an aerial view.
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January 2025
January 2025
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History until 1900, Italy
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Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces. Articulating the design principles that served as the foundation for these(...)
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Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces. Articulating the design principles that served as the foundation for these(...)
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Dominion of the eye: urbanism, art, and power in early modern Florence
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Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces. Articulating the design principles that served as the foundation for these urban renewal projects, Trachtenberg's book fundamentally revises our understanding of urban planning in the early modern period, countering the received claim that rational planning begins only in the Renaissance.
Dominion of the eye: urbanism, art, and power in early modern Florence
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Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces. Articulating the design principles that served as the foundation for these urban renewal projects, Trachtenberg's book fundamentally revises our understanding of urban planning in the early modern period, countering the received claim that rational planning begins only in the Renaissance.
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July 2008
July 2008
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History until 1900, Italy
History until 1900, Italy
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The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae
The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae
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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined(...)
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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined(...)
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The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae
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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined the Renaissance. \Collections of these prints came to be known as the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the University of Chicago Library's "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the largest collection of its kind in the world, "The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome" places these prints in their historical context and examines their publishing history. Editor Rebecca Zorach traces their journey from their creators and publishers to pilgrims, collectors, antiquarians, and dealers - "virtual tourists" who, over several centuries, revisited and reinvented the Renaissance image of Rome. A marvelous exploration of a rich collection of engravings and etchings, this illustrated volume will fascinate anyone interested in Renaissance Rome, the history of print collecting, the reception of antiquity, and tourism.
The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae
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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined the Renaissance. \Collections of these prints came to be known as the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the University of Chicago Library's "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the largest collection of its kind in the world, "The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome" places these prints in their historical context and examines their publishing history. Editor Rebecca Zorach traces their journey from their creators and publishers to pilgrims, collectors, antiquarians, and dealers - "virtual tourists" who, over several centuries, revisited and reinvented the Renaissance image of Rome. A marvelous exploration of a rich collection of engravings and etchings, this illustrated volume will fascinate anyone interested in Renaissance Rome, the history of print collecting, the reception of antiquity, and tourism.
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February 2008
February 2008
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History until 1900, Italy
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Ce catalogue se parcourt comme un récit, comme une partition, une composition d'auteur qui s'adresse tout particulièrement aux nouvelles générations, les plus jeunes, celles qui - comme le disait Bruno Munari - représentent le futur. La Massimo & Sonia Cirulli Archive, fondée à New York en 1985, a pour objet le made in Italy au XXe siècle à travers l'art, le design, la(...)
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Ce catalogue se parcourt comme un récit, comme une partition, une composition d'auteur qui s'adresse tout particulièrement aux nouvelles générations, les plus jeunes, celles qui - comme le disait Bruno Munari - représentent le futur. La Massimo & Sonia Cirulli Archive, fondée à New York en 1985, a pour objet le made in Italy au XXe siècle à travers l'art, le design, la(...)
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March 2012
March 2012
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Lo stile italiano : arte e design / Le style italien : art et design / Italian style : art and design
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Ce catalogue se parcourt comme un récit, comme une partition, une composition d'auteur qui s'adresse tout particulièrement aux nouvelles générations, les plus jeunes, celles qui - comme le disait Bruno Munari - représentent le futur. La Massimo & Sonia Cirulli Archive, fondée à New York en 1985, a pour objet le made in Italy au XXe siècle à travers l'art, le design, la publicité et la photographie. Avec plus de deux cent mille oeuvres, elle est considérée comme la plus importante archive historique privée d'art italien. Depuis plus de vingt ans, elle poursuit sa mission en racontant l'Italie et le faire italien dans les musées du monde entier.
Lo stile italiano : arte e design / Le style italien : art et design / Italian style : art and design
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Ce catalogue se parcourt comme un récit, comme une partition, une composition d'auteur qui s'adresse tout particulièrement aux nouvelles générations, les plus jeunes, celles qui - comme le disait Bruno Munari - représentent le futur. La Massimo & Sonia Cirulli Archive, fondée à New York en 1985, a pour objet le made in Italy au XXe siècle à travers l'art, le design, la publicité et la photographie. Avec plus de deux cent mille oeuvres, elle est considérée comme la plus importante archive historique privée d'art italien. Depuis plus de vingt ans, elle poursuit sa mission en racontant l'Italie et le faire italien dans les musées du monde entier.
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March 2012
March 2012
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Dans tous les voyages initiatiques de l'adolescence une place fondamentale est réservée à l'Italie : Rome, Florence, Naples, Sienne, Venise. Mais bizarrement dans ce passage obligé de la culture occidentale, Ferrare, la ville de l'Arioste, du Tasse, où oeuvrèrent les plus grands architectes et peintres de la Renaissance, est souvent ignorée, évitée, presque(...)
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Dans tous les voyages initiatiques de l'adolescence une place fondamentale est réservée à l'Italie : Rome, Florence, Naples, Sienne, Venise. Mais bizarrement dans ce passage obligé de la culture occidentale, Ferrare, la ville de l'Arioste, du Tasse, où oeuvrèrent les plus grands architectes et peintres de la Renaissance, est souvent ignorée, évitée, presque(...)
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Ferrare : joyau de la Renaissance italienne
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Dans tous les voyages initiatiques de l'adolescence une place fondamentale est réservée à l'Italie : Rome, Florence, Naples, Sienne, Venise. Mais bizarrement dans ce passage obligé de la culture occidentale, Ferrare, la ville de l'Arioste, du Tasse, où oeuvrèrent les plus grands architectes et peintres de la Renaissance, est souvent ignorée, évitée, presque méprisée. Très peu d'ouvrages qui évoquent Ferrare sont disponibles en français. Aucun ne lui a été entièrement consacré. Celui-ci, qui comporte pr`s de 150 reproductions d'oeuvres architecturales, de fresques et de peintures méconnues, invite à une découverte de la Renaissance ferraraise qui réserve bien des surprises.
Ferrare : joyau de la Renaissance italienne
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Dans tous les voyages initiatiques de l'adolescence une place fondamentale est réservée à l'Italie : Rome, Florence, Naples, Sienne, Venise. Mais bizarrement dans ce passage obligé de la culture occidentale, Ferrare, la ville de l'Arioste, du Tasse, où oeuvrèrent les plus grands architectes et peintres de la Renaissance, est souvent ignorée, évitée, presque méprisée. Très peu d'ouvrages qui évoquent Ferrare sont disponibles en français. Aucun ne lui a été entièrement consacré. Celui-ci, qui comporte pr`s de 150 reproductions d'oeuvres architecturales, de fresques et de peintures méconnues, invite à une découverte de la Renaissance ferraraise qui réserve bien des surprises.
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May 2012
May 2012
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History until 1900, Italy
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The creations(...)
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The creations(...)
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Martial signifiers: fortress complexes by Francesco di Giorgio Martini
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The creations represented in this book have their origins in a particular historic situation: the emergence of firearms in the 14th century and their spread in the 15th century had shifted the balance of warfare in favour of the attacking side, against which the defensive structure had not yet found a remedy.
Martial signifiers: fortress complexes by Francesco di Giorgio Martini
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The creations represented in this book have their origins in a particular historic situation: the emergence of firearms in the 14th century and their spread in the 15th century had shifted the balance of warfare in favour of the attacking side, against which the defensive structure had not yet found a remedy.
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September 2011
September 2011
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History until 1900, Italy
History until 1900, Italy
