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Glazed brick decoration in the ancient Near East : proceedings of a workshop at the 11th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Munich) in April 2018
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ISBN: 1789696062 1789696054 Year: 2020 Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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L'immagine di una città : scultura decorativa a Trieste nell'Ottocento
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ISBN: 9788883453922 8883453921 Year: 2014 Publisher: Gorizia Edizioni della Laguna


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Architectural sculpture in romanesque Provence.
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ISBN: 0198171927 Year: 1972 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Public sculpture of the city of London
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ISBN: 1846314607 Year: 2003 Volume: v. 7 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,


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A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : with illustrations, notes, and an examination of Grecian architecture.
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ISBN: 1139452991 1108054692 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to further his career in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. He also became the Prince of Wales' architectural tutor, architect to the office of works, then head of the royal works (comptroller and surveyor-general from 1782). Notably, he remodelled Buckingham House (1762-73) and designed Somerset House (1775-96), but Chambers' reputation rests also on his Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759), which he revised and expanded in 1791 as A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture. It is regarded as one of the standard English texts on classical architecture, and remains essential reading. This reissue is of the two-volume edition of 1825, annotated by the architect and writer Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863). Volume 1 includes Gwilt's prefatory material, including an analysis of Grecian architecture's development.


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Kijk op stadhuizen : met foto's van Con Moennich
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ISBN: 9010030962 Year: 1981 Publisher: Sint-Stevens-Woluwe Elsevier


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Muurvast en gebeiteld : beeldhouwkunst in de bouw 1840-1940.
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ISBN: 9056620762 Year: 1997 Publisher: Rotterdam NAi


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Histories of Ornament : From global to local
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ISBN: 9780691167282 0691167281 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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"This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates its global resurgence today. Organized by thematic sections on the significance, influence, and role of ornament, the book addresses ornament's current revival in architecture, its historiography and theories, its transcontinental mobility in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East, and its place in the context of industrialization and modernism. Throughout, Histories of Ornament emphasizes the portability and politics of ornament, figuration versus abstraction, cross-cultural dialogues, and the constant negotiation of local and global traditions."--Publisher's description.

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