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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early high and late Baroque periods The heart of the study however lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque when Bernini Borromini and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes Wittkowers text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography This edition will also include color illustrations for the first time This is the third book in the three volume survey
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This book examines a period which is far more than a prelude to the age of steel and concrete The first halfcentury culminated in the bold iron and glass of the Crystal Palace There follows the creation of the modern styles of the era based on traditions of the past and finally in the 20th century Art Nouveau and the modern architects in their generations Perret Wright Gropius Corbusier Mies van der Rohe and others in many parts of the world
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Once slighted as mere copying from China the arts of Japan are now seen as a unique alternation of advances and withdrawals At times the islanders produced Chinesestyle works of great beauty unmatched on the continent When they chose to be independent their art differs at every level Sculpture and even more painting are concrete sensuous and emotional speaking directly to all All that was most native in architectural taste survived the periods of Chinese monumentality huge temples and gridiron city plans with little change The rambling woodpaperandbamboo dwelling reemerged 1000 years ago almost as it may still be seen today
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Surveys the significant artistic and architectural works of Islamic countries from the seventh through the thirteenth centuries
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Axel Boethiuss account begins about 1400 BC with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and by the Etruscans who by about 600 had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell
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The first reconstruction of the architecture of ancient Alexandria and Egypt long believed lost beyond recovery This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria as well as ofnbspthe rest of Egypt encompasses an entire millenniumfrom the citys founding by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to the years just after the Islamic conquest of AD 642 Long considered lost beyond recall the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now remained mysterious But here Judith McKenzie shows that it is indeed possible to reconstruct the city and many of its buildings by means of meticulous exploration of archaeological remains written sources and an array of other fragmentary evidenceThe book approaches its subject at the macro and the microlevel from cityplanning building types and designs to architectural style It addresses the interaction between the imported Greek and native Egyptian traditions the relations between the architecture of Alexandria and the other cities and towns of Egypt as well as the wider Mediterranean world and Alexandrias previously unrecognized role as a major source of architectural innovation and artistic influence Lavishly illustrated with new plans of the city in the Ptolemaic Roman and Byzantine periods reconstruction drawings and photographs the book brings to life the ancient city and uncovers the true extent of its architectural legacy in the Mediterranean world
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This magisterial study of Gothic architecture traces the meaning and development of the Gothic style through medieval churches across Europe Ranging geographically from Poland to Portugal and from Sicily to Scotland and chronologically from 1093 to 1530 the book analyzes changes from Romanesque to Gothic as well as the evolution within the Gothic style and places these changes in the context of the creative spirit of the Middle Ages In its breadth of outlook its command of detail and its theoretical enterprise Frankls book has few equals in the ambitious Pelican History of Art series It is singleminded in its pursuit of the general principles that informed all aspects of Gothic architecture and its culture In this edition Paul Crossley has revised the original text to take into account the proliferation of recent literaturebooks reviews exhibition catalogues and periodicalsthat have emerged in a variety of languages New illustrations have also been included
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Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic artthe Alhambra the Taj Mahal and the Tahmasp Shahnamawere produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early thirteenth century to the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth This beautiful book surveys the architecture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this eraConceived as a sequel to The Art and Architecture of Islam 6501250 by Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar the book follows the general format of the first volume with chronological and regional divisions and architecture treated separately from the other arts The authors describe over two hundred works of Islamic art of this period and also investigate broader social and economic contexts considering such topics as function patronage and meaning They discuss for example how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how in this new world order Iranian forms techniques and motifs played a dominant role in the artistic life of most of the Muslim world the one exception was the Maghrib an area protected from the full brunt of the Mongol invasions where traditional models continued to inspire artists and patrons By the sixteenth century say the authors the eastern Mediterranean under the Ottomans and the area of northern India under the Mughals had become more powerful and the Iranian models of early Ottoman and Mughal art gradually gave way to distinct regional and imperial styles The authors conclude with a provocative essay on the varied legacies of Islamic art in Europe and the Islamic lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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A wealth of art and architectural treasures survive from Ancient Egypta civilization that endured from the fourth millennium BC to the conquest of Alexander the Great In this book Ancient Egyptian monuments their decorations and many other works of art are reproduced in more than four hundred beautiful illustrationsThe Ancient Egyptians in their tombs attempted to recreate life for the dead in a naturalistic way often against the background of the landscape in which they lived This book shows the tombs at Thebes including the treasurefilled burial place of Tutankhamen the temples of Luxor and Karnak and the palaces of Akhenaten at Tell el Amarna and of Amenhotep III at Thebes It also presents many revealing portraits depicting a range of subjects from the kings and queens who built the pyramids at Giza and Saqqara to their own civil servants
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Professor Conants detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic In this volume he shows how at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France Spain Portugal the Holy Land Italy Germany Northern Europe and Britain
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This revised and updated history confines itself to Russia west of the Urals the Russia whose artistic beginnings lay in the response of a newly settled people to the impact of Christianity and the Byzantine Empire In the first centuries the arts flourished and developed in the independent states and principalities but gradually native schools in centres like Novgorod and Kiev gave way to centralization based on Moscow From the emergence of Russia under Peter the Great until the late 19th century specifically Russian qualities gave way to Western European inspiration and advice However as the 19th century developed there was a reaction from foreign domination and this led to the rediscovery of native traditions
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By now a classic it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture from Rome and Milan to North Africa from Constantinople to Greece and the Balkans and from Egypt and Jerusalem to the villages and monasteries of Syria Asia Minor Armenia and Mesopotamia nbsp
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A survey of Egyptian art and architecture is enhanced by revised text an updated bibliography and over four hundred illustrations
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This classic work presents a survey of Italian Renaissance architecture in the Cinquecento It discusses the work of Bramante Giulio Romano Michelangelo and Palladio among others as well as the various centers of architectural activity throughout Italy This book was first published in 1974 as part two of a volume entitled Architecture in Italy 14001600 Part one by Ludwig Heydenreich is being reissued as a separate volume Lotzs text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and updated bibliography by Deborah Howard who assesses Lotzs standing as an architectural historian and surveys the developments in the discipline and the new material published since the first edition
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