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(0)Katrina Grant, ‘The Gardens of Lucca’
Posted On 01 May 2008
The city of Lucca is built upon a plain, and the villas surround the city across the colline di Lucca (the hills of Lucca), hence forming the crown described by Leonardi:
Hugh Hudson, ‘The Monuments of Florence, Real and Imagined, in the Early Renaissance: The Development of Single-Point Perspective in Painting’
Posted On 01 May 2008
Opposite the principal train station of Florence in the northwest quarter of the city stands the imposing church of Santa Maria Novella, distinguished by its slender belltower, long nave, elegant marble façade, and fine courtyards with cypress groves at either side. ...
Zoe Willis, ‘Building a Myth: Dalmatia and the Conundrum of Venetian Imperial Identity’
Posted On 01 May 2008
The complex political and cultural relationship between Venice and her Dalmatian colonies lasted for almost eight hundred years, from the turn of the first millennium until Venice’s final capitulation to Napoleonic forces in 1797. ... This essay is accompanied by forty-four images that correspond to Figs 1-44 in the text below. You can see the images when you click on the figure numbers. You can also open the album in a separate tab and view the images and their accompanying description as you read the essay.
Hugh Hudson, ‘From Via della Scala to the Cathedral: Social Spaces and the Visual Arts in Paolo Uccello’s Florence’
Posted On 01 May 2008
This article reconstructs the experience of Florence’s urban spaces from the point of view of one of its most intriguing early Renaissance artists: Paolo Uccello. ...
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Hugh Hudson, ‘From Via della Scala to the Cathedral: Social Spaces and the Visual Arts in Paolo Uccello’s Florence’
Posted On 01 May 2008
This article reconstructs the experience of Florence’s urban spaces from the point of view of one of its most intriguing early Renaissance artists: Paolo Uccello. ...
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Hugh Hudson, ‘The Monuments of Florence, Real and Imagined, in the Early Renaissance: The Development of Single-Point Perspective in Painting’
Posted On 01 May 2008
Opposite the principal train station of Florence in the northwest quarter of the city stands the imposing church of Santa Maria Novella, distinguished by its slender belltower, long nave, elegant ...
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Zoe Willis, ‘Building a Myth: Dalmatia and the Conundrum of Venetian Imperial Identity’
Posted On 01 May 2008
The complex political and cultural relationship between Venice and her Dalmatian colonies lasted for almost eight hundred years, from the turn of the first millennium until Venice’s final ...
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Alicia Marchant, ‘In Loco Amoenissimo’: Fifteenth-Century St Albans and the Role of Place in Thomas Walsingham’s Description of Wales
Posted On 14 April 2008
At the foot of a manuscript page of the Chronica Maiora, a chronicle attributed to Thomas Walsingham (d. c. 1422), is a jotting under the year 1403 by an unknown writer which reads ... This essay ...
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