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Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe
In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally developed for persuasive speech, …
Art, Agency and Living Presence
Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. …
British Architectural Theory 1540-1750
This book was published in 2003. Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of …
Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images
The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the …
Art, Agency and Living Presence
Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. …
Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past
Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two …
The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images
The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the …
Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture
Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre. The authors present many …
Germain Boffrand
This title was first published in 2002. Germain Boffrand was one of the great French architects of the early eighteenth century. His work encompassed not only the design of town …
Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past
Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two …
Idols and Museum Pieces
The publication of Winckelmann’s Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums in 1764 is considered as the defining moment in the genesis of the modern, scientific study of sculpture. It was …
Antoine Wiertz (1806-65) and the Quest for Modern Genius: The Reverse of the Sublime
In art history, the Belgian romantic artist Antoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-65) is often considered as the prototype of the artist as a "failure". Contemporaries described his colossal …