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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(...)
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.
History until 1900, Classicism
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Rather than look only at the physical development of Rome - its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces - Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. Dyson follows Rome as it developed(...)
Rome: A living portrait of an ancient city
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Rather than look only at the physical development of Rome - its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces - Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. Dyson follows Rome as it developed between the third century BC and the fourth century AD, dividing the megalopolis into distinct neighborhoods and locales. He shows how these communities, each with its own unique customs and colorful inhabitants, eventually grew into the great imperial capital of the Italian Empire. Dyson integrates the full range of sources available -- literary, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological -- to create a comprehensive history of the monumental city. In doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.
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La ville antique
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Une synthèse sur la création des premières villes européennes et sur l'émergence du modèle urbain au sein des civilisations grecques et romaines. Les contributions tentent de définir les conditions qui ont rendu possible la naissance de ce nouveau type d'organisation, connu sous le terme générique de cité, et la diffusion de ce concept autour de la Méditerranée.
La ville antique
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Une synthèse sur la création des premières villes européennes et sur l'émergence du modèle urbain au sein des civilisations grecques et romaines. Les contributions tentent de définir les conditions qui ont rendu possible la naissance de ce nouveau type d'organisation, connu sous le terme générique de cité, et la diffusion de ce concept autour de la Méditerranée.
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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(...)
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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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(...)
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September 2004, New York
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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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.
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May 2016
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.
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This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examines the three principal areas of social display and conspicuous consumption in the Roman world: social space, entertainment, and dress, and discusses the significance of the decoration of objects and interiors within these(...)
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July 2009
Style and function in Roman decoration: living with objects and interiors
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This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examines the three principal areas of social display and conspicuous consumption in the Roman world: social space, entertainment, and dress, and discusses the significance of the decoration of objects and interiors within these contexts, drawing examples from both Rome and its environs, and the Western provinces, from the early Imperial period to Late Antiquity. Focusing on specific examples, including mosaics and other interior decor, silver plate, glass and pottery vessels, and jewellery and other dress accessories, Swift demonstrates the importance of decoration in creating and maintaining social networks and identities and fostering appropriate social behaviour, and its role in perpetuating social convention and social norms.
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July 2009
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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.(...)
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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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(...)
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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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(...)
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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