Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
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19 July 1994 to 25 September 1994
The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
11 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Cara Rachele
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
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Salomon de Brosse : un architecte français au commencement du XVIIe siècle / par Jacques Pannier.
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282 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table, plans ; 24 cm
Paris : Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture, Morel, Ch. Eggimann, successeur, 1911.
Salomon de Brosse : un architecte français au commencement du XVIIe siècle / par Jacques Pannier.
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282 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table, plans ; 24 cm
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Paris : Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture, Morel, Ch. Eggimann, successeur, 1911.
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250 pages illustrations, 55 plates (1 double) 25 cm
Lille, É. Raoust, 1925.
L'architecture civile à Lille au XVIIe siècle.
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250 pages illustrations, 55 plates (1 double) 25 cm
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Lille, É. Raoust, 1925.
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109 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Paris : Ch. Massin. 1911.
Vues des Châteaux du Blésois au XVIIe siècle.
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109 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
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Paris : Ch. Massin. 1911.
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xxvii, 223 pages (pages 1-136 plates) 29 cm
Lausanne, Mermod [1953]
Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle. Notices biographiques de Philippe Jaccottet.
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xxvii, 223 pages (pages 1-136 plates) 29 cm
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Lausanne, Mermod [1953]
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181 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, 25 cm
Paris : A. Morancé ; 1967.
Les monuments arméniens du IVe siècle au XVIIe siècle / Edouard Utudjian.
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181 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, 25 cm
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Paris : A. Morancé ; 1967.
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588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
[Paris] : Plon, [1974], ©1974
Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle / Louise Dechêne.
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588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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[Paris] : Plon, [1974], ©1974
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114 pages illustrations (plans) 145 plates 36 x 29 cm
Paris, E. Leroux, 1929.
L'architecture religieuse russe du XIe siecle au XVIIe siècle [par] G.K. Loukomski.
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114 pages illustrations (plans) 145 plates 36 x 29 cm
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Paris, E. Leroux, 1929.