|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robin L. Thomas (PSU)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.043kg ISBN: 9780271095219ISBN 10: 0271095210 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 28 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsIn sparkling prose, Thomas argues that three remarkable palaces in Naples were not only important works of architecture but embodiments of Enlightenment ideals. These buildings have never been considered together in print nor have their larger cultural ambitions been discussed. Built on learned foundations of eighteenth-century printed and archival sources, much of it unpublished, Palaces of Reason serves to put Naples back in its proper place as a key artistic and intellectual center of the 1700s. -Heather Hyde Minor, author of The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome and Piranesi's Lost Words Palaces of Reason orders and animates one of the most ambitious and complex architectural programmes of eighteenth-century Europe. No author has studied the three Bourbon palaces of Naples together in this way and provided such an original and well-researched analysis. -Melissa Calaresu, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge “In sparkling prose, Thomas argues that three remarkable palaces in Naples were not only important works of architecture but embodiments of Enlightenment ideals. These buildings have never been considered together in print nor have their larger cultural ambitions been discussed. Built on learned foundations of eighteenth-century printed and archival sources, much of it unpublished, Palaces of Reason serves to put Naples back in its proper place as a key artistic and intellectual center of the 1700s.” —Heather Hyde Minor,author of The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome and Piranesi's Lost Words “Palaces of Reason orders and animates one of the most ambitious and complex architectural programmes of eighteenth-century Europe. No author has studied the three Bourbon palaces of Naples together in this way and provided such an original and well-researched analysis.” —Melissa Calaresu,Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge Author InformationRobin L. Thomas is Professor of Art History and Architecture at Penn State University. He is the author of Architecture and Statecraft: Charles of Bourbon’s Naples, 1734–1759, also published by Penn State University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |