1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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... Renaissance culture . At first , only a few isolated formal aspects of the Renaissance style were accepted and adopted in Portugal , and its eventual arrival was the result of a process of contamination and combination among innovative ...
... Renaissance culture . At first , only a few isolated formal aspects of the Renaissance style were accepted and adopted in Portugal , and its eventual arrival was the result of a process of contamination and combination among innovative ...
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... Renaissance city 1454-92 The polycentric reality of Italy The complex and articulated Renaissance concept of history and of the individual , intended to reveal the elements of continuity between classical culture and Christian truth ...
... Renaissance city 1454-92 The polycentric reality of Italy The complex and articulated Renaissance concept of history and of the individual , intended to reveal the elements of continuity between classical culture and Christian truth ...
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... Renaissance - flavour decoration , setting the style for an elegant and refined ' domestic ' neo - classicism . Alberti , Leon Battista ( Genoa , 1404 - Rome , 1472 ) Architect , musician , painter , writer , and man of eclectic taste ...
... Renaissance - flavour decoration , setting the style for an elegant and refined ' domestic ' neo - classicism . Alberti , Leon Battista ( Genoa , 1404 - Rome , 1472 ) Architect , musician , painter , writer , and man of eclectic taste ...
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