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    Inigo Jones on Stonehenge: Architectural Representation, Memory and Narrative

    Caroline van Eck

    During his stay at Wilton with the Earl of Pembroke, King James I (1566-1625) sent his court architect Inigo Jones (1573-1652) to the nearby prehistoric ruins of Stonehenge, with the…

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    British Architectural Theory 1540-1750: An Anthology of Texts

    This book was published in 2003.Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of…

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    Germain Boffrand: Book of Architecture Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans, Elevations and Sections of some of the Edifices Built in France and in Foreign Countries

    Caroline van Eck

    First published in 2002, Germain Boffrand's Livre d'Architecture is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Translated for the first time the text is accompanied…

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    Art, Agency and Living Presence: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object

    Caroline van Eck

    Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating…

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    Idols and Museum Pieces: The Nature of Sculpture, its Historiography and Exhibition History 1640-1880

    Essays by renowned international art scholars, ethnologists, museologists, and aesthetics experts discuss the impact of sculpture and its reception in different religions and cultures, particularly in relation to idolatry, fetishism…

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    Piranesi und sein Museum / Piranesi and his Museum: Die Restaurierung der Antike und die Entstehung des Style Empire in einer sich globalisierenden Welt / The restoration of antiquity and the genesis of the empire style in a globalizing world

    Caroline van Eck

    The development or change of styles is usually considered as a process directed by persons: the artist, the patron, and sometimes intended audience or public. This book offers a different…

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    Piranesi’s Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism

    Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge)

    This volume explores the creation and reception of Piranesi's three colossal neoclassical candelabra. Caroline Van Eck's study explores the intense interest taken by producers and consumers of art objects in…

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    Antoine Wiertz (1806-65) and the Quest for Modern Genius

    In art history, the Belgian romantic artist Antoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-65) is often considered as the prototype of the artist as a "failure". Contemporaries described his colossal and melodramatic works…

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    Art, Agency and Living Presence: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object

    Caroline Van Eck (Leiden University the Netherlands)

    Throughout history and around the world, people have interacted with works of art as if they were living beings rather than static objects. People talk to artworks, kiss or punch…

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    Translations of the Sublime: The Early Modern Reception and Dissemination of Longinus’ Peri Hupsous in Rhetoric, the Visual Arts, Architecture and the Theatre

    The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of…

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    Dealing with the Visual: Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture

    Caroline van Eck,Edward Winters

    Can paintings, buildings or installations be ‘read’ in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of appreciation? In this…

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    Dealing with the Visual: Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture

    Can paintings, buildings or installations be ‘read’ in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of appreciation? In this…

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    Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture

    Caroline van Eck,Stijn Bussels

    Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre. The authors present many new instances of the interaction…

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    Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe

    Caroline van Van Eck (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)

    In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally developed for persuasive speech, has always used…

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    Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe

    Caroline van Van Eck (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)

    In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally developed for persuasive speech, has always used…

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    The Art of Religion: Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini’s Rome

    Maarten Delbeke,Dr. Caroline van Eck

    Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and his Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist…

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    Modernism and the Mediterranean: The Maeght Foundation

    Jan K. Birksted,Dr. Caroline van Eck

    Jan Birksted shows how the Maeght Foundation building articulated the ideas of the modernists whilst it was being constructed and during the last years of their lives. The author focuses…

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    The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images: Constructing Wonders

    The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with…

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    The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images: Constructing Wonders

    The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with…

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    The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts

    The essays in this book examine the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy which occurred during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the foundationalism of Descartes…

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    The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts

    The essays in this book examine the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy which occurred during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the foundationalism of Descartes…

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    Companions to the History of Architecture: 4 Volume Set

    Unprecedented in its in-depth coverage, and with over 500 illustrations, photographs, and architectural drawings the multi-volume Companion to the History of Architecture offers an indispensable resource on architectural thought and…

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