Roman House--Renaissance Palaces

Roman House--Renaissance Palaces
Author: Georgia Clarke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780521770088

Georgia Clarke examines the fifteenth-century patrons' fascination with ancient texts.

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Christoph Luitpold Frommel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780500342206

Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and 35 key architects. Examines social context, religious beliefs, political power-structures, technical innovation, aesthetic judgement . Includes over 300 photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions. Sure to be the recognized textbook for the foreseeable future.

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Peter Murray
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Guides the reader from the earliest revivals of Roman style to the villas of Palladio and Vignola. Each of the great architects is clearly and sensitively discussed. 202 illustrations.

The Ruin of the Eternal City

The Ruin of the Eternal City
Author: David Karmon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0199766894

The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.

The Renaissance in Rome

The Renaissance in Rome
Author: Charles L. Stinger
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1998-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253212085

Probes the basic attitudes, the underlying values and the core convictions that Rome's intellectuals and artists experienced, lived for, and believed in from Pope Eugenius IV's reign to the Eternal City in 1443 to the sacking of 1527.

The Story of Renaissance Architecture

The Story of Renaissance Architecture
Author: Sonia Servida
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture, Renaissance
ISBN: 9783791345970

"This volume features the Renaissance period's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. This book offers a general introduction to the period and discusses the primary characteristics of the style, along with commonly used techniques and materials. The Renaissance began in fifteenth-century Italy as an attempt to review Rome's Golden Age. Some ot the most recognizable Renaissance structures featured here are the Palais de Fontainebleau in France, the Ducal Palace of Urbino in Italy and St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City"--Back cover.

Rome

Rome
Author: Marcia B. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2005-04-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521624459

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