Quattro Romanzi
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The Perfect House
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Author : Witold Rybczynski
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-26
The Perfect House written by Witold Rybczynski and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-26 with Architecture categories.
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today. In The Perfect House, bestselling author Witold Rybczynski, whose previous books (Home, A Clearing in the Distance, Now I Sit Me Down) have transformed our understanding of domestic architecture, reveals how a handful of Palladio's houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe. More than just a study of one of history's seminal architectural figures, The Perfect House reflects Rybczynski's enormous admiration for his subject and provides a new way of looking at the special landscapes we call "home" in the modern world.
The Honest Courtesan
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Author : Margaret F. Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-07-13
The Honest Courtesan written by Margaret F. Rosenthal and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-13 with History categories.
The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position. Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women—and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries—that makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today. Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism, this sophisticated interdisciplinary work presents an eloquent and often moving account of one woman's life as an act of self-creation and as a complex response to social forces and cultural conditions. "A book . . . pleasurably redolent of Venice in the 16th-century. Rosenthal gives a vivid sense of a world of salons and coteries, of intricate networks of family and patronage, and of literary exchanges both intellectual and erotic."—Helen Hackett, Times Higher Education Supplement The Honest Courtesan is the basis for the film Dangerous Beauty (1998) directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (The film was re-titled The Honest Courtesan for release in the UK and Europe in 1999.)
Palladio
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Author : James Ackerman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1991-07-25
Palladio written by James Ackerman and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-07-25 with Architecture categories.
Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and illuminating, he suggests, yet they never do justice to the intense intuitive skills of "a magician of light and colour". Indeed, as the photographs in this book reveal, Palladio was "as sensual, as skilled in visual alchemy as any Venetian painter of his time", and his countless imitators have usually captured the details, but not the essence of his style. There are buildings all the way from Philadelphia to Leningrad which bear witness to Palladio's "permanent place in the making of architecture", yet he also deserves to be seen on his own terms.
The Four Books On Architecture
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Author : Andrea Palladio
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2002-08-23
The Four Books On Architecture written by Andrea Palladio and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-23 with Architecture categories.
The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than Palladio's buildings is his treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books On Architecture), the most successful architectural treatise of the Renaissance and one of the two or three most important books in the literature of architecture. First published in Italian in 1570, it has been translated into every major Western language. This is the first English translation of Palladio in over 250 years, making it the only translation available in modern English. Until now, English-language readers have had to rely mostly on a facsimile of Isaac Ware's 1738 translation and the eighteenth-century engravings prepared for that text. This new translation by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield contains Palladio's original woodcuts, reproduced in facsimile and positioned correctly, adjacent to the text. The book also contains a glossary that explains technical terms in their original context, a bibliography of recent Palladio research, and an introduction to Palladio and his times. The First Book discusses building materials and techniques, as well as the five orders of architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. Palladio describes the characteristics of each order and illustrates them. The Second Book discusses private town houses and country estates, almost all designed by Palladio. The Third Book discusses streets, bridges, piazzas, and basilicas, most of ancient Roman origin. The Fourth Book discusses ancient Roman temples, including the Pantheon.
Italian Quarterly
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Author : Carlo Luigi Golino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Italian Quarterly written by Carlo Luigi Golino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Italian literature categories.
Prose Di Romanzi Opere V 4
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Author : G. D'annunzio
language : en
Publisher:
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Prose Di Romanzi Opere V 4 written by G. D'annunzio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Good Novels Better Management
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Author : B. Czarniawska-Joerges
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-05
Good Novels Better Management written by B. Czarniawska-Joerges and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-05 with Business & Economics categories.
This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education. As many novelists have had personal experience of working in organizations, their work combines introspective insight with analytical skill.
The Palladio Guide
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Author : Caroline Constant
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 1993
The Palladio Guide written by Caroline Constant and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
Designed for anyone with an interest in touring major architectural works, the Guidebooks contain historical and descriptive information on key buildings, and practical information including maps, directions, addresses, and references for further reading.
Architectural Theory
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Taschen
Release Date : 2003
Architectural Theory written by and has been published by Taschen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Architecture categories.
This book charls the fascinating history of architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present day. Addressing its subject country by country and featuring over 850 illustrations, it offers a chronological overview of the most important architects and architectural theoreticians from Alberti to Koolhaas. Book jacket.
A Catalogue Of Seventeenth Century Printed Books In The National Library Of Medicine
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Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
A Catalogue Of Seventeenth Century Printed Books In The National Library Of Medicine written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Early printed books categories.