Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - Medieval

When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini s ideas on drawing recorded in his Trattati di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare (1475-1490) are significant. Francesco suggests that drawing is linked to the architect s imagination and central in conveying images and ideas to others.

Starting with the broader edges of Francesco s written work and steadily penetrating into the fantastic world of his drawings, the book examines his singular...

Exploring the stories behind a range of iconic American and British buildings from the turn of the twentieth century, Medieval Metropolis is the first book to reveal how the modern architectural world thrived upon a foundation of medievalism. A vivid and wide-ranging account, it takes a fresh look at Gothic-style modern buildings, seeing them as radical, experimental and progressive. Lepine argues that far from being conservative and nostalgic, medievalism built the skyscrapers of New York and the civic landmarks of London, at the dawn of a truly international modern...

Architecture - Gothic and Renaissance

By T. Roger Smith

Gothic and Renaissance Architecture

Fully Illustrated

The Classic Publication on Gothic Architecture

THE architecture generally known as Gothic, but often described as Christian Pointed, prevailed throughout Europe to the exclusion of every rival for upwards of three centuries; and it is to be met with, more or less, during two others. Speaking broadly, it may be said that its origin took place in the twelfth century, that the thirteenth was the period of its development, the...

Die hochmittelalterlichen Fernstrassen nach Rom, allen voran die bekannte Via francigena, dienten als multifunktionale Transferlinien der religiosen, politischen und kunstlerischen Kommunikation. Entlang der italienischen Streckenabschnitte, an den brisantesten Kulminationspunkten des Konflikts zwischen dem romisch-deutschen Kaiser und dem Papst, wurde im 12. Jh. unter der Agide kaiserlicher Statthalter mit architektonischen Gestaltmotiven unterschiedlichster Herkunft und Konnotation experimentiert. Das Buch wirft neues Licht auf den Bedeutungsgehalt der aussergewohnlichsten und...

In the Christian East, the pastoral manuals of the Church took a literary form known as -Questions/Answers.- The authors of these canonical works were bishops and priests who usually wrote to guide clergy in addressing issues arising from diocesan and parish life. Unlike any of these other guides, in the present work an entire church subject to Islamic persecution sought the counsel of its sole Eastern sister church that was free from Muslim conquest. This pastoral guide for a church under Islam sets forth a pattern meant for a patriarchate to apply in addressing issues arising in a...

Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth. BIssera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines how these sung rites combined with the church's architectural space to make Hagia Sophia a performative place of worship representative of Byzantine religious culture in all its sensory richness.

Coupling digital acoustic models and video with a close examination of liturgical texts and melodic structures, Pentcheva applies art-historical,...

In the towns, there is law. - In the wilds men are beasts.

One wrong turn and you must stave off death with sword and axe.

We are quick to violence. - It is because we are Odin's dogs.

When your friends lay cold upon the ground, your foe's blameless. The nature of man is the true culprit.

Bring your Fate of the Norns: Raganarok game to the shores of the Baltic. As proud Nibelung Heroes or desperate Volsung Outlaws, travel from picturesque Alands, to terrifying Pohjola, to the sinister Danvirke, and all the way to...