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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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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18th century, 19th century, Antiquité, antiquité, Antiquity, Buffon, Charles de Wailly, Charles-François Viel, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, dessin, drawing, Etienne-Louis Boullée, Étienne-Louis Boullée, France, French Revolution, Grèce, Greece, hôpital, hospital, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux, Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Lettres d’architecture des anciens et celle des moderns, Panthéon, Paris, Paul Holmquist, Principes de l’ordonnance et de la construction des bâtimens, Renaissance, Révolution française, Rome, Sainte-Geneviève, Vitruve,
28 November 2011
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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295 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
[Paris] : Picard, ©1988.
Nantes au XVIIIe siècle : urbanisme et architecture / Pierre Lelièvre.
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295 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
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[Paris] : Picard, ©1988.
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214 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Tusson : Du Lérot Ed., 1986.
Tusson et alentours au XVIIIe siècle / Roger Ducouret.
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214 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Tusson : Du Lérot Ed., 1986.
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121 pages, 40 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 29 cm
Paris : Bruxelles : G. van Oest, 1925.
Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle / comte Ernest de Ganay.
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121 pages, 40 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 29 cm
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Paris : Bruxelles : G. van Oest, 1925.
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Paris au XVIIIe siècle ...
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379 pages illustrations 21 cm.
[Grenoble], B. Arthaud, 1968.
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[Grenoble], B. Arthaud, 1968.
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iii, 2, 124 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
[Besançon] : Archives départementales du Doubs, 1980.
Architectures en Franche-Comté au XVIIIe siècle : du classicisme au néo-classicisme, la production architecturale des créateurs comtois du XVIIIe siècle, à Besançon et dans l'actuel département de la Haute-Saône.
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iii, 2, 124 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
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[Besançon] : Archives départementales du Doubs, 1980.