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Het Egmont-Arenbergpaleis te Brussel
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ISBN: 902091958X Year: 1991 Publisher: Tielt : Lannoo,


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Het Paleis van Brussel : Acht eeuwen kunst en geschiedenis
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ISBN: 9050660940 Year: 1991 Publisher: Brussel Gemeentekrediet van België

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Tentoonstelling georganiseerd wordt ter gelegenheid van de zestigste verjaardagvan Z.M. Koning Baudewijn I en zijn veertig jaar koningschap. 08 Franse titel : U430 : Le Palais de Bruxelles : Huit siècles d'Art et d'Histoire.


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Les plus beaux palais vénitiens
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ISBN: 2856203396 9782856203392 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris: Mengès,

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Qui n’a rêvé devant les somptueuses façades des palais du Rialto et du Grand Canal ? Réputé dans le monde entier pour ses ouvrages sur la Sérénissime, Alvise Zorzi, l’un des meilleurs spécialistes de l’histoire de Venise, fait revivre les sept siècles où s’épanouirent tant d’édifices uniques. Sans rompre le charme et le mystère des lieux, il analyse l’architecture de ces palais singuliers et retrace l’histoire brillante des personnages du patriarcat vénitien, les propriétaires de ces demeures. Les heures glorieuses des Corner, des Barbarigo, des Pisani, des Loredan, des Foscari et de tant d’autres revivent sous les yeux éblouis du lecteur. Les armoiries de chacune de ces grandes familles font d’autre part l’objet d’une étude approfondie. Quant aux 949 photographies, elles sont l’œuvre de Paolo Marton qui confirme ici son immense talent de photographe d’art et d’architecture. Il révèle les détails les plus infimes des appartements princiers, s’attarde sur les arcades des balcons, flâne à la croisée des ruelles et des campielli…


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Royal courts in dynastic states and empires : a global perspective
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ISBN: 9004206221 9786613161772 128316177X 900420623X 9789004206236 9789004206229 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. The authors are acknowledged specialists in their own fields, but they address themes relevant for all courts: the inner and outer dimensions of court architecture as well as staff organizations; the connections between court, capital, and realm; the relationship of the ruler with relatives and other elites. This volume pioneers comparative history combining a rich empirical orientation with a critical assessment of theoretical perspectives. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access Contributors: Tülay Artan, Gojko Barjamovic, Peter Fibiger Bang, Jeroen Duindam, Sabine Dabringhaus, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Ebba Koch, Metin Kunt, Paul Magdalino, Rosamond McKitterick, Ruth Macrides, Rolf Strootman, Isenbike Togan, Maria Antonietta Visceglia, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.

Architecture, poetry, and number in the royal palace at Caserta
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ISBN: 0262081210 0262368110 9780262368117 9780262081214 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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Although Vanvitelli was one of the most notable architects of his century, as Caserta was one of its major buildings, this study by a leading scholar of Baroque and Neapolitan architecture is the first book in English on the architect and his masterpiece.The great palace of Caserta, near Naples, probably the largest building erected in Europe in the eighteenth century, became an archetypal expression of absolute monarchy. It was begun in 1752 for Carlo di Borbone, King of the Two Sicilies, who worked closely with its chief architect, Luigi Vanvitelli. Although Vanvitelli was one of the most notable architects of his century, as Caserta was one of its major buildings, this study by a leading scholar of Baroque and Neapolitan architecture is the first book in English on the architect and his masterpiece. The book offers a new view of the palatial and megapalatial in architecture. Although the monarch for whom it was built never spent a night under its roof, Caserta was designed to provide the royal family and the court with a grand residence and more. It was also intended to house the offices of the government bureaucracy, barracks, a national library, a university, and a national theater - not only to symbolize but to contain the organs of a large modern state. Caserta influenced much that came after: plans by Boulle for a new Versailles to return pride of size to France, buildings in both Imperial and Soviet Russia, palaces of the later British Empire, even the Pentagon. As Hersey notes, "if Carlo di Borbone could return from the grave and rule the United States, he would move the seat of executive power from the White House to the Pentagon." The book also provides intriguing insights into the relationships between poetry - painted and sculptured allegories - and number - architectural planning that has become a geometrical game. It sketches the intellectual background of Carlo's conception, emphasizing the king's mythical forebears and his love of mathematical order. It shows that the Neapolitan poet and philosopher, Giambattista Vico, influenced the king to incorporate such mythic figures as Hercules and Aeneas into his genealogy and Vanvitelli to introduce their likenesses into Caserta's art, which is in turn integrated with the geometry of the palace's gardens and the numerical sequences of its rooms.

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