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Post-industrial Robotics

Exploring Informed Architecture

By: Angelo Figliola,Alessandra Battisti

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Post-industrial Robotics

Exploring Informed Architecture

By: Angelo Figliola,Alessandra Battisti

This book highlights the concept of informed architecture as an alternative to performance-based approaches. Starting with an analysis of the state of art, the book defines an operative methodology in which performative parameters lead to the generation of the shape becoming the design’s input, rather than being mere quantitative parameters. It then uses case studies to investigate the methodology. Lastly, the book discusses a novel way of conceiving and using the manufacturing tool, which is the basis for the definition of informed architectures in relation to data usage and the optimization process.

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9811552789

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"The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439?650 "

Italian Art and Theatre

By: Alessandra Buccheri

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Italian Art and Theatre

By: Alessandra Buccheri

The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few, and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings, frescos and stage designs, together with letters, guild-ledgers, descriptions of performances and relevant treatises, a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy?s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci?s theatrical works, Raphael?s Disputa, Vasari?s Lives, and Pietro da Cortona?s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived, imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, crossing over into the fields of history, religion and philosophy.

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Routledge

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1351540424

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9781351540421

A New Antiquity

Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600

By: Alessandra Russo

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A New Antiquity

Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600

By: Alessandra Russo

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of considering the European experience of “New World” artifacts and materials through the lenses of “curiosity” and “exoticism,” Russo asks a different question: What impact have these works had on the way we currently think about—and theorize—the arts? Centering her study on a vast corpus of early modern textual and visual sources, Russo contends that the subtlety and inventiveness of the myriad of American, Asian, and African creations that were pillaged, exchanged, and often eventually destroyed in the context of Iberian colonization—including sculpture, painting, metalwork, mosaic, carving, architecture, and masonry—actually challenged and revolutionized sixteenth-century European definitions of what art is and what it means to be human. In this way, artifacts coming from outside Europe between 1400 and 1600 played a definitive role in what are considered distinctively European transformations: the redefinition of the frontier between the “mechanical” and the “liberal” arts and a new conception of the figure of the artist. Original and convincing, A New Antiquity is a pathbreaking study that disrupts existing conceptions of Renaissance art and early modern humanity. It will be required reading for art historians specializing in the Renaissance,scholars of Iberian and Latin American cultures and global studies, and anyone interested in anthropology and aesthetics.

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Penn State Press

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0271098147

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9780271098142

The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439–1650

Italian Art and Theatre

By: Dr Alessandra Buccheri

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The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439–1650

Italian Art and Theatre

By: Dr Alessandra Buccheri

The Spectacle of Clouds examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, crossing over into the fields of history, religion and philosophy. By examining visual sources such as paintings, frescos and stage designs, together with letters, guild-ledgers, descriptions of performances and treatises, a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture.

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217

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472418832

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9781472418838

Italy For Dummies

By: Bruce Murphy,Alessandra de Rosa

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Italy For Dummies

By: Bruce Murphy,Alessandra de Rosa

Detailed itineraries show you how to see the highlights, whether your vacation lasts one week or two, you're traveling with children, or you're a history buff looking for a fix of archaeological Italy. Bargain alerts tip you off to time-saving insider details–like which sight passes grant you free access to others–so more of your money stays where you want it. Not all Italian pizzas, pastas, and wines are created equally; Italy for Dummies steers you in all the right culinary directions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470931450

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Post-industrial Robotics

Exploring Informed Architecture

By: Angelo Figliola,Alessandra Battisti

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Exploring Informed Architecture

By: Angelo Figliola,Alessandra Battisti

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Book's by Alessandra Battisti

Post-industrial Robotics

Post-industrial Robotics

"The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439?650 "

"The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439?650 "

A New Antiquity

A New Antiquity

The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439–1650

The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439–1650

Italy For Dummies

Italy For Dummies

Post-industrial Robotics

Post-industrial Robotics

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