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Renaissance Art and Architecture Sites focusing on art and architecture from the early modern period.
Renaissance Architecture Your starting place for exploring Renaissance architecture, with facts and photos for Renaissance architecture in Italy, France and England.
Renaissance Art and Architecture Sites focusing on art and architecture from the early modern period.
Architecture History Time Line - Historic Periods and Styles From Prehistoric to Post-modern, a quick history of architecture in the Western world, from prehistoric megaliths to modernist skyscrapers. Follow the links to find articles and photos for each period and style.
Site Map - Medieval History A general index to everything at the Medieval History site, from your About.com Guide
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) Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory - Book Review
MARIO CARPO Trans. Sarah Benson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. 246 pp.; 27 b/w ills. $34.95 In 1985 Christof Thoenes and Hubertus Gunther published ......(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)Elevating architecture
Filippo's work at Santa Maria del Fiore set architects on a different path and gave them a new social and intellectual esteem. Largely through his looming ......(Continue Reading)Terpsichore and the architects: 'I have a deep sense of my body's architecture … the skeleton', said choreographer Trisha Brown in her prelude to
CHRISTIANS DON'T DANCE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Simon Goldhill Dance had a particular significance in Ancient Greece. Its subsequent history in Western culture is grounded in the Christian resp...(Continue Reading)
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