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Ruins

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From the Renaissance to the present day, each generation of artists, architects, and writers has used the powerful images of ruins to project its own vision of time and human destiny. The metamorphosis of the ruin motif in art explains not only the separations but the continuities between the perception of past and present that characterize the different art movements. Drawing from all media of Western art including garden design, photography, and fine art, Michel Makarius explores the rich and diverse iconography of ruins from da Vinci to Van Gogh, from Botticelli to Roy Lichtenstein. Ruins is a reminder of history at a time when few art motifs still have the power to demand attention for our immense collective past - and at a moment when a reminder is sorely needed.

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L'art roman : un défi européen

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De Rome à Vézelay, de Spire à Dubrovnik, de Durham à Compostelle, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg présente et analyse le défi de l'Europe romane, symbiose étroite entre les commenditaires et les créateurs.

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Classical architecture for the twenty-first century : an introduction to design

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An exceptionally approachable, thorough, informative guide to the theory and technique of designing classical buildings, as taught by a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts, this book, generously illustrated with sketches, freehand diagrams, renderings, and photographs, gives a lively, contemporary reality to what sometimes seems a remote subject. It is a practical text for learning how to design buildings in the classical tradition today.

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Michel-Ange : architecte et sculpteur de la Chapelle Medicis

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On sait que l’œuvre de Michel-Ange ouvre un espace créatif radicalement nouveau, subversion radicale des conventions esthétiques de son époque. Sérgio Ferro décrypte l’une des œuvres majeures de l’artiste : la sacristie de San Lorenzo à Florence. Il montre en quoi un véritable travail critique s’énonce depuis la matière même de l’œuvre architecturale et sculptée. Mais au-delà encore, suivant un processus rigoureux d’interprétation inspiré de la sémiologie CH. S. Peirce, la lecture attentive que propose Sérgio Ferro a valeur de modèle. L’auteur pose ainsi les fondements d’une herméneutique originale, rendue plus sensible encore par sa propre expérience d’artiste-peintre et d’architecte.

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The roman amphitheatre: from its origins to the colosseum

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This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). She explores the social and political contexts of each of these phases in detail. The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre and the games in the Greek East, a part of the Empire that was, initially, deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule.

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Antiquity and its interpreters

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"Antiquity and its Interpreters" examines how the physical and textual remains of the ancient Romans were viewed and received by writers, artists, and cultural makers of early modern Italy. This volume reconsiders the complex relationship between the two cultures, in light of recent scholarship in the field a new appreciation and awareness of the act of history writing itself. The case studies analyze specific texts, the archaeological projects that made ‘antiquity’ available, the revival of art history and theory, and the appropriation of antiquities to serve social ideologies, among other topics. Demonstrating that the antique model was itself an artful contruct, "Antiquity and its Interpretors" shows that the originality of Renaissance culture owed as much to ignorance about antiquity as to an understanding of it. It also provides a synthesis of seminal work that recognizes the reciprocal relationship of the Renaissance to Antiquity. Contributors include James Ackerman, David Galbraith, Patricia Fortini Brown, Philip Sohm, Sheila Bonde, Martine Furno II, Marina Belozerskaya, Kenneth D. S. Lapatin, Leonard Barkan, Julia Branna Perlman, Nicola Courtright, Alina A. Payne, Rebekah Smick, Gehard Wolf, Christof Thoenes, Michael Koortbojian, Tod Marder, Phyllis Pray Bober, Richard Betts, Catherine Wilkinson Zerner, Richard Brilliant, Michael Ann Holly, Carl Goldstein.

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Rome: An architectural history

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The city of Rome is constructed of numerous historical layers and has been influenced by successions of styles, from antiquity to today. What characterizes buildings from the different periods? With text by professor in art history Maria Fabricius Hansen and illustrations by graphic novelist maker Lars Horneman, Rome: An architectural History describes key aspects of the city’s historic buildings. The book introduces Rome’s architecture and urban space while also giving an overview of European architectural history as a whole, as reflected in Rome’s millennia of architectural change.

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The eternal city: a history of Rome

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City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage—Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the twenty-seven centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells this rich story in a grand narrative style for a new generation of readers.

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The Genesis of Roman Architecture

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Existing narratives cast the Greeks as the progenitors of classical art and architecture or rely on historical sources dating centuries after the fact to establish the Roman context. Author John North Hopkins, however, allows the material and visual record to play the primary role in telling the story of Rome’s origins, synthesizing important new evidence from recent excavations. Hopkins’s detailed account of urban growth and artistic, political, and social exchange establishes strong parallels with communities across the Mediterranean. From the late 7th century, Romans looked to increasingly distant lands for shifts in artistic production. By the end of the archaic period they were building temples that would outstrip the monumentality of even those on the Greek mainland. The book’s extensive illustrations feature new reconstructions, allowing readers a rare visual exploration of this fragmentary evidence.

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Adieu, Palmyre

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Voici Palmyre racontée et montrée par deux voyageurs passionnés qui l’ont visitée à de nombreuses reprises. Ce site inouï, détruit en 2015 par la violence de Daech, est reconstitué par les photographies de Ferrante Ferranti qui en donnent une vision exhaustive (temples, agora et théâtre, colonnades et arches, camp de Dioclétien, tombeaux), faisant ainsi oeuvre de mémoire.