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Bruce Boucher
A detailed study that sheds a fascinating new light on Sir John Soane (1753-1837) and his extraordinary collection.
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The art of sculpture in Baroque Italy reached unprecedented heights of technical perfection and emotional intensity. The author offers a fresh view of this rich and varied period, ranging from…
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This illustrated book - featuring newly-commissioned photographs, plans and drawings - discusses the architecture of Palladio (1508-89) in terms of its importance in art history. His career is put into…
Presenting photographs, plans and drawings, this work examines the the life of Renaissance architect Palladio. It traces his rise from his time as an apprentice to the construction of peerless…
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is known as the architect who has guided Western design philosophy for half a millennium, creating forms that have been studied and reproduced from age to age…
Fantastic and phantasmagorical watercolors of hell’s must-see sites
In these large-scale watercolors, London-based Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein (born 1977) imagines hell as a city built up out of the architectural…
Sir John Soane's Museum
First published as A New description of Sir John Soane’s Museum in 1955 –Colophon.
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A photographic study of Raphael’s lesser-known architectural oeuvre
Here, luscious color photographs of Raphael’s architectural works by Italian photographer Stefano Graziani capture the rich pinks, blacks and ochres of the…
The Eighteenth Century features a rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery’s apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave…
Bruce Herschensohn
This volume explores the days of handover through the words of leading Hong Kong citizens. The author utilizes transcribed interviews to tell the story of one of the important events…
