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Baroque Architecture Elements of the Baroque style are found throughout Europe. Here are histories and photos.
Artists in 60 Seconds: Giovanni Lorenzo (Gianlorenzo) Bernini A profile of Giovanni Lorenzo (Gianlorenzo) Bernini (1598-1680), Italian Baroque sculptor, painter and architect.
ARCHITECTURE IN RUSSIA AND SMOLNY CATHEDRAL IN ST. PETERSBURG Designed by the famous Italian architect, Rastrelli, Smolny Cathedral celebrates the Rococo style.
Architecture in Italy Your starting place for exploring architecture in Italy, with photos, features, and links .
Art History 101 - A Brisk Walk Through the Eras Art History 101 - A Brisk Walk Through the Eras. The High Renaissance to Early Modern Art - 1400-1880.
What is a renaissance garden? Garden historians use the terms 'renaissance', 'mannerist' and baroque' freely—and often interchangeably, Tim Richardson
Garden history is still a relatively young subject--it got into its stride only in the 1960s--and there are many gaps in scholarship and research. But ......(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)Architecture and the car: as the automobile evolved in tandem with modern architecture, it created myths, legends and new building types
Gabriel Voison (1880-1973) gave up architectural studies to fly, and then to build aircraft for the French air force. After the First World War, Voison ......(Continue Reading)Autumn books preview: a selection of forthcoming books on art and architecture
To give even a brief survey of the highlights of art book publishing this autumn it is necessary to introduce some limitations, so no exhibition catalogues, ......(Continue Reading)Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture 1660-1815. - Review - book review
Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture 1660-1815 Christine Stevenson Yale University Press, 30 [pounds sterling], pp 312 ......(Continue Reading)
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