P. Victoris de Regionibus Urbis Romae libellus aureus
Title | P. Victoris de Regionibus Urbis Romae libellus aureus PDF eBook |
Author | Publius (Victor) |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1510 |
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Illuminating Leonardo
Title | Illuminating Leonardo PDF eBook |
Author | Constance Moffatt |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004304134 |
Illuminating Leonardo opens the new series Leonardo Studies with a tribute to Professor Carlo Pedretti, the most important Leonardo scholar of our time, with a wide-ranging overview of current Leonardo scholarship from the most renowned Leonardo scholars and young researchers. Though no single book could provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of Leonardo studies, after reading this collection of short essays cover-to-cover, the reader will come away knowing a great deal about the current state of the field in many areas of research. To begin the series, editors Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba present an impressive group of essays that offer fresh ideas as a departure point for future studies. Contributors include Andrea Bernardoni, Pascal Broist, Alfredo Buccaro, Francesco Paolo di Teodoro, Claire Farago, Francesca Fiorani, Fabio Frosini, Sabine Frommel, Leslie Geddes, Damiano Iacobone, Martin Kemp, Matthew Landrus, Domenico Laurenza, Pietro C. Marani, Max Marmor, Constance Moffatt, Romano Nanni, Annalisa Perissa-Torrini, Paola Salvi, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Carlo Vecce, Alessandro Vezzosi, Marino Viganò, and Joanna Woods-Marsden.
Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture
Title | Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Fane-Saunders |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2016-07-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1316419096 |
The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders - material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions of these buildings, as well as details of their unusual construction materials and ornament. This book describes, for the first time, how the passages were interpreted from around 1430 to 1580, that is, from Alberti to Palladio. Chapters are arranged chronologically within three interrelated sections - antiquarianism; architectural writings; drawings and built monuments - thereby making it possible for the reader to follow the changing attitudes to Pliny over the period. The resulting study establishes the Naturalis historia as the single most important literary source after Vitruvius's De architectura.
Humanistica Lovaniensia
Title | Humanistica Lovaniensia PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Tournoy |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1983-02-15 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9789061861553 |
Volume 32
Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism
Title | Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hendrickson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2017-03-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004338179 |
Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius’s work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.
Catalogue of the Christie Collection
Title | Catalogue of the Christie Collection PDF eBook |
Author | University of Manchester. Library (1904-1972). Christie Collection |
Publisher | |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Books |
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Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Title | Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester PDF eBook |
Author | John Rylands Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
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