exhibitions
The terms contemplation, solitude, exile, leisure, rest, retreat, reverse, and solitude—and their antonyms action, court, world, worldliness and society—constitute a recurring chain of ideas in seventeenth-century fictional and biographical literature. From Society to Solitude combines history, literature, and architecture, focusing on the theme of the retreat and its(...)
Hall cases
12 October 1994 to 15 January 1995
From Society to Solitude: Public and Private Space in Seventeenth-Century France
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The terms contemplation, solitude, exile, leisure, rest, retreat, reverse, and solitude—and their antonyms action, court, world, worldliness and society—constitute a recurring chain of ideas in seventeenth-century fictional and biographical literature. From Society to Solitude combines history, literature, and architecture, focusing on the theme of the retreat and its(...)
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12 October 1994 to
15 January 1995
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State, King , Seventeenth-century, French Architecture, Indra McEwen, Architecture of Fortification, Mechanical Body, Invisible Modern State, Visiting Scholar
18 February 2000
Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
research
Visiting Scholars 2014
Caroline Dionne, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Topic: In Architectural Terms: Social Space in Seventeenth-Century Lexicography and Encyclopaedism Federica Doglio, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: The Heritage of Team X: the Architecture of Education between Europe and North America Hannah Feldman, Northwestern(...)
May 2014 to September 2014
Visiting Scholars 2014
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Caroline Dionne, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Topic: In Architectural Terms: Social Space in Seventeenth-Century Lexicography and Encyclopaedism Federica Doglio, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: The Heritage of Team X: the Architecture of Education between Europe and North America Hannah Feldman, Northwestern(...)
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May 2014 to
September 2014
Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 March 2000 to 7 May 2000
Visions and Views: The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
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Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Visiting Scholars 1999–2000
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome: Mark Dorrian, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Topic: Baroque Deformation Martina Frank, Department of History, Università degli studi di Udine, Italy Topic: Luca Danesi et le baroque vénitien Indra McEwen, National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Canada Subject: The State of(...)
January 2000 to August 2000
Visiting Scholars 1999–2000
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome: Mark Dorrian, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Topic: Baroque Deformation Martina Frank, Department of History, Università degli studi di Udine, Italy Topic: Luca Danesi et le baroque vénitien Indra McEwen, National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Canada Subject: The State of(...)
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January 2000 to
August 2000
books
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137 pages.
Princeton, N.J. University Press 1961.
Seventeenth century science and arts, by Stephen Toulmin [and others].
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137 pages.
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Princeton, N.J. University Press 1961.
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xlvii, 185 pages illustrations (some color) 26 cm
Gent, Belgium, Printed by Erasmus [1972?]
Flemish drawings of the seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt, Institut Néerlandais, Paris.
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xlvii, 185 pages illustrations (some color) 26 cm
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Gent, Belgium, Printed by Erasmus [1972?]
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xiv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Fithian Press, 1992.
Seventeenth-century Bolognese ceiling decorators / Ebria Feinblatt.
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xiv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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Santa Barbara, Calif. : Fithian Press, 1992.