245 x 222 mm, paperback, 48 pages, 36 illustrations
PRICE: £9.95
ISBN: 9781898592181
This second publication in the series of small picture books on individual works of art in Sir John Soane's Museum (the first, by J.G. Links on Soane's Canalettos, is no longer available) features the anonymous North Italian Album, a unique work of the Italian Renaissance - 68 highly coloured designs on vellum for architecture, furniture, stage sets and decorative objects.
Lynda Fairburn traces the relationship between this pattern book an its sources which are unusually vivid and personal. The book is a valuable reference for Renaissance architecture and design.
Lynda Fairburn has written and taught widely on Italian Renaissance architecture.
“I am not a modernist but ... I agree with the modernists in every way except that I think their brand of modernism is not very good.” Raymond Erith looked to achieve what he called the true “economy of means”, using traditional means to create original buildings with progressive ideas behind them. More
This book presents an overview of the restoration Venice has undergone in the last two hundred years. It is a mistake to think that Venice has been preserved in aspic. A great deal changed after the Fall of the Republic in 1797, and continues to change. Having read this book, you will never look upon Venice’s streets, houses and canals in the same way again. More