This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication towards the establishment of meaningful architecture. It explores how these are effectively applied in architectural education for learners empowerment...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649031877)
This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious arts, architecture, and material culture. The new Me...Lasīt vairāk
The green man or foliate head can be found in almost every pre-Reformation cathedral and in many churches. It often decorates arches, corbels, roof bosses, choir stalls and chancel screens. In this book, Imogen Corrigan takes the reader on a journe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009408653)
Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it meant to them to be Christian. Important for schola...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009557498)
The spiritual turmoil of the sixteenth century had a profound impact on religious life throughout Italy. Art and architecture were directly implicated in the seismic historical events of the age, as the Catholic Church countered Protestant iconoclasm...Lasīt vairāk
This book traces the evolution of the projects for completing the square court - Cour Carrée - of the Louvre in the 1660s and the evolution of Ange-Jacques Gabriels project for rebuilding the town front of the palace at Versailles a century later....Lasīt vairāk
This book traces the evolution of the projects for completing the square court - Cour Carrée - of the Louvre in the 1660s and the evolution of Ange-Jacques Gabriels project for rebuilding the town front of the palace at Versailles a century later....Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dongs cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with th...Lasīt vairāk
Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the coven...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the role of the architectural faēade as an indicator of individual and communal cultural identities, focusing on a residence of a conquistador rather than religious and monarchial structures....Lasīt vairāk
The use of protective symbols, also known as apotropaic marks, are often part of folk magic traditions, appearing in homes, churches, on personal items, and even graves, across Europe, Australia, and North America. The most common and well-known o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780367536770)
This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication towards the establishment of meaningful architecture. It explores how these are effectively applied in architectural education for learners empowermen...Lasīt vairāk
Sacred treasuries formed part of every medieval cathedral or church housing contents that were endowed with profound spiritual significance but were also of immense value in worldly terms. In many ways, these were the predecessors of both modern muse...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Mar-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487562106)
Mann examines how the financial patronage of newly empowered local rulers allowed Romanesque architecture and sculptural decoration to significantly redefine the cultural identities of those who lived in the frontier kingdoms of Christian Spain....Lasīt vairāk
These essays present a comprehensive view of early modern Nürnbergs visual culture as it pertains to civic virtues. They explore Nürnberg as a significant location from which to study the intersection of art and power, culture and the Common Good....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Leuven University Press, ISBN-13: 9789462701441)
Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history, and colonial architecture, the contributions in this volume investigate the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteent...Lasīt vairāk
( a) gem of a book Spectator Churches and cathedrals were originally built to be read. They are alive with images and symbols. But today few people, including regular visitors, truly understand the wealth of meaning in what they find ther...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, ISBN-13: 9788822268990)
Tra la prima e la seconda eta moderna, Roma divenne luogo privilegiato di incontro e confronto per coloro che, a vario titolo, si cimentarono nella straordinaria impresa architettonica che stava vedendo protagonista la Curia: su committenza papale e...Lasīt vairāk
This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857 1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in particular. This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethab...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Jun-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262047746)
How modern architectural language was invented to communicate with the divinechallenging a common narrative of European architectural history.The architectural drawing might seem to be a quintessentially modern form, and indeed many h...Lasīt vairāk
