Architecture
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Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)STILL unrivalled, after the lapse of four centuries the villas of the great cardinals of the Renaissance retain their supremacy over their Italian sisters, not, as once, by reason of their prodigal magnificence but in the appealing charm of...
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The Ground Plan of the English Parish ChurchThe Ground Plan of the English Parish ChurchThere is as yet no book entirely devoted to the development of the plan of the parish church in England, and the body of literature which bears upon the subject is not very accessible to the ordinary...
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The Care of BooksThe Care of Books When engaged in editing and completing The Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, I devoted much time and attention to the essay called The Library. The subject was entirely new; and the more I looked into it,...
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Printing and the RenaissancePrinting and the Renaissance - A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New YorkWe must pass over entirely the history of publishing and book-selling in ancient times, a subject too vast for adequate summary in a preliminary survey of this sort. With...
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The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale ModelThe Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model - United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80The original plans of the pioneer transatlantic steamer Savannah no longer exist, and many popular representations of the famous vessel have been based on a...
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The Nebuly CoatThe Nebuly CoatSir George Farquhar, Baronet, builder of railway-stations, and institutes, and churches, author, antiquarian, and senior partner of Farquhar and Farquhar, leant back in his office chair and turned it sideways to give more point to his remarks. Before him stood an understudy,...
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The Venetian Painters of the RenaissanceThe Venetian Painters of the Renaissance - Third EditionThe following essay owes its origin to the author's belief that Venetian painting is the most complete expression in art of the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance is even more important typically than historically. Historically it may...
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Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and ShipsMan on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and ShipsThose who regard familiar objects in art and nature as mere matters of course, and do not trouble themselves to wander out of the beaten track of everyday thought, may not at first feel the...
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Scottish Cathedrals and AbbeysScottish Cathedrals and AbbeysThis book is designed to render to Scottish Churchmen the special service of presenting to them, in a brief but comprehensive survey, the record of their ecclesiastical history which is engraved in their ecclesiastical architecture. There is no record so authentic...
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Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her DayLucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her DayLucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this because she was guilty of the most hideous crimes, or is it simply because she has been unjustly condemned by the world...
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The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the SecondThe Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second - An Ethical PoemThe second part of "The Heroic Enthusiasts" which I am now sending to the press is on the same subject as the first, namely the struggles of the soul in its upward...
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The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the FirstThe Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First - An Ethical PoemNola, a city founded by the Chalcidian Greeks, at a short distance from Naples and from Vesuvius, was the birth-place of Giordano Bruno. It is described by David Levi as a city...
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Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance PeriodsLibraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods - The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894The former commends itself to the practical turn of mind characteristic of the present day; common sense urges that mechanical ingenuity, which has done so much in other directions, should...
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Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French RenaissanceAvril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French RenaissanceWe have wondered together that a society so avid of experience and enlargement as is ours, should ignore the chief expression of its closest neighbour, its highest rival and its coheir in Europe: should ignore,...
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The Florentine Painters of the RenaissanceThe Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - With An Index To Their WorksThe lists have been thoroughly revised, and some of them considerably increased. Botticini, Pier Francesco Fiorentino, and Amico di Sandro have been added, partly for the intrinsic value of their work, and...
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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7)Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) - The Catholic Reaction At the end of the second volume of my 'Renaissance in Italy' I indulged the hope that I might live to describe the phase of culture which closed that brilliant epoch....
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The Age of ErasmusThe Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and LondonThe importance of biography for the study of history can hardly be overrated. In a sense it is true that history should be like the law and 'care not about very...
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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) - The Age of the Despots This volume is the First Part of a work upon the 'Renaissance in Italy.' The Second Part treats of the Revival of Learning. The Third, of the Fine Arts. The Fourth...
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Knots, Splices and Rope WorkKnots, Splices and Rope Work - A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.The history of ropes and knots is so dim and ancient...
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English Travellers of the RenaissanceEnglish Travellers of the RenaissanceAmong the many didactic books which flooded England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were certain essays on travel. Some of these have never been brought to light since their publication more than three hundred years ago, or been mentioned...
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