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Temple Beauties: The Entrance-Portico in the Architecture of Great Britain, 1630-1850
by Richard Riddell
The portico was a defining feature of the Classical architectural revival of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in Britain, but has been rarely studied in its own right. In this well illustrated volume Richard Riddell first provides a definition for the portico, then explores its symbolism and significance. He selects representative examples of different portico types, relating them to stylistic developments and influential models. The ...
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Prague and Bohemia: Medieval Art, Architecture and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe
by Zoë Opacic
... and often controversial campaign to restore and document Gothic monuments. The volume offers important new insights into key buildings such as Prague Cathedral and Karlstein Castle. By bringing together their expertise in architecture, archaeology, painting, stained glass, manuscript illumination, textiles, sigillography and epigraphy, the authors also present a rich and complex picture of connections and influences stretching across the ...
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Vicars Choral at English Cathedrals: Cantate Domino: History, Architecture And Archaeology
edited by Richard Hall and David Stocker
Staffing medieval cathedrals was always a problem. Some English cathedrals introduced monks, but almost half of them put themselves in the hands of secular priests (canons). As cathedrals became complex 'prayer factories' between the 12th and 16th centuries, the canons appointed Vicars Choral to perform liturgical functions in their stead. From the moment of their first appearance in the 12th century, there was concern about the vicars' ...
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Palaces for Pigs: Animal Architecture and other Beastly Dwellings
by Lucinda Lambton
... to a dovecote, while Capability Brown was commissioned to create a classical menagerie and Henry Holland designed an elaborate Chinese Dairy.
These buildings are the happy results of the British passion for both architecture and animals - emblems of unrestrained indulgence and often unnecessary extravagance. When designing for animals, architects and their patrons could realise their wildest flights of architectural fancy; the ...
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Vernacular Mudbrick Architecture in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, and the Design of the Dakhleh Oasis Training and Conservation Centre
by Wolf Schijns, Olaf Kaper and Joris Kila
... bricks or stamped earth, materials also known as mud brick, adobe,terre crue, pise, or rammed earth. Houses in the middle east have been made out this material for at least 10,000 years, but in many places this form of architecture is slowly being superceded by more recent building techniques using reinforced concrete and concrete blocks. This study contains a description of the remaining mud brick architecture in several villages in ...
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Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction
by Robert Hillenbrand
This book is intended to serve as an easily accesible introduction to the architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem, which forms the backdrop to the world-famous sacred buildings which are the goal of thousands of visitors each year. ...
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Gilding: Approaches to treatment
edited by Victoria Boyer and Ben Pearce
Gilding is to be found on a wide range of materials across the spectrum of the visual arts and its conservation spans many fields, including metalwork, architecture, sculpture, paintings, frames, furniture and other artifacts. 84p, col illus (English Heritage 2001)
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The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos
by Josef Wegner
... Fine Arts, NYU Expedition initiated a renewed program of excavation at South Abydos. A focus of this work has been a comprehensive investigation of the Senwosret III mortuary temple. Excavation of the temple's well-preserved architecture in tandem with work on its surroundings now provides the basis for a detailed reconstruction of this major Middle Kingdom royal mortuary temple.
The volume includes six parts arranged in twenty-two ...
Hardback. Price US$170.00
Der schwierige Neubeginn - Vier deutsche Dichter 1949: Beiträge von Heinrich Detering, Dirk von Petersdorff, Hans Dieter Schäfer und Albert von Schirnding. Anlässlich des 60jährigen Bestehens der Klasse der Literatur
by Petra Plättner
English summary: Four German poets were the focus of the presentation at the opening of the Academy of Sciences anniversary celebration on April 23rd and 24th, 2009. Before the war Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann and Alfred Doblin were considered the most successful German writers. The speakers highlight the tension between East and West, between emigration and return, and between success and failure that faced the four poets ...
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Frühbyzantinische textile Kopfbedeckungen: Typologie, Verbreitung, Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden
by Petra Linscheid
English summary: The analysis of archaeological textiles in order to write their ancient cultural history is still in its infancy. This study contributes to this process by cataloging more than 600 original pieces of headwear from the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, and evaluates them in terms of their location, date, sociological context, visual and written sources, as well as their precursors and successors. The majority of the ...
Hardback. Price US$168.00
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