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Renaissance Architecture Your starting place for exploring Renaissance architecture, with facts and photos for Renaissance architecture in Italy, France and England.
The Louvre in Paris France Facts and photos for the The Louvre in Paris, France
The mansard roof and second empire architecture Characteristic of the Second Empire style, the mansard roof has a long and interesting history. Facts and photos.
HOUSE STYLES - Renaissance Revival Style House A fascination for the architecture of Renaissance Europe and the villas of Andrea Palladio inspired these elegant turn-of-the-century homes. Find facts and photos for the opulent Renaissance Revival style.
What is Beaux Arts - Architecture Glossary From our Architecture Glossary, definition and illustration for the term BEAUX ARTS
Art imitates architecture: the Saint Philip reliquary in Renaissance Florence
Public ritual in late medieval and Renaissance Florence was largely dependent on the cults of the city's patron saints, relics, and sacred images. (1) ......(Continue Reading) Visiting the Val d'Orcia, birthplace of the Italian Renaissance town
In the heart of Tuscany's province of Siena -- where the first towns built in the Renaissance style were founded -- is the area known as the Val d'Orcia....(Continue Reading)Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism & Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 &
MARIA GEORGOPOULOU Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 383 pp.; 136 b/w ills, ......(Continue Reading)Beauty from a barrel: a new exhibition at the National Building Museum showcases concrete's contribution to architecture
Beauty from a barrel: a new exhibition at the National Building Museum showcases concrete's contribution to architecture....(Continue Reading)Becoming Corbusier: a recent exhibition traced the development of this seminal 20th-century figure from provincial designer to modern architectural master
"He lives in the extraordinary world of the acrobat" was how Le Corbusier referred to himself, describing his profession of architecture in My Work (published in 1960, five years before his death)....(Continue Reading)
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