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Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque

By: George L. Hersey,Professor George L Hersey

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Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque

By: George L. Hersey,Professor George L Hersey

The age of the baroque -- a time of great strides in science and mathematics -- also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. In this book, George L. Hersey explores the interrelations of the two developments, explaining how the advancements of geometry and the abstractions of mathematicians were made concrete in the architecture of the day. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226327833

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9780226327839

Falling in Love with Statues

Artificial Humans from Pygmalion to the Present

By: George L. Hersey

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Falling in Love with Statues

Artificial Humans from Pygmalion to the Present

By: George L. Hersey

From Greek statues to porcelain dolls to digital avatars, countless generations of artificial humans have fascinated, seduced, and earned the devotion of their flesh-and-blood creators. Falling in Love with Statues reveals that these relationships have played an instrumental role throughout human history in our efforts to understand, improve, and empower ourselves."--Inside jacket.

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198

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University of Chicago Press

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0226327795

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9780226327792

The Monumental Impulse

Architecture's Biological Roots

By: George L. Hersey

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The Monumental Impulse

Architecture's Biological Roots

By: George L. Hersey

A highly original view of the relationship between architecture and the biological sciences.

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272

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MIT Press

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0262582031

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9780262582032

The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture

Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi

By: George L. Hersey

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The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture

Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi

By: George L. Hersey

By analyzing this poetry - the tropes founded on the Greek terms for ornamental detail - he reconstructs a classical theory about the origin and meaning of the orders, one that links them to ancient sacrificial ritual and myth.

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220

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MIT Press

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0262580896

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9780262580892

Possible Palladian Villas

(plus a Few Instructively Impossible Ones)

By: George L. Hersey,Richard Freedman

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Possible Palladian Villas

(plus a Few Instructively Impossible Ones)

By: George L. Hersey,Richard Freedman

Drawing on Palladio's original published legacy of approximately 40 designs, the authors attempt to reveal the rigorous geometric rules by which Palladio conceived these structures. Using a computer, they test each rule in every possible application.

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208

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MIT Press

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0262082101

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9780262082105

High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican

An Interpretive Guide

By: George L. Hersey

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High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican

An Interpretive Guide

By: George L. Hersey

Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante—together these artists created some of the most glorious treasures of the Vatican, viewed daily by thousands of tourists. But how many visitors understand the way these artworks reflect the passions, dreams, and struggles of the popes who commissioned them? For anyone making an artistic pilgrimage to the High Renaissance splendors of the Vatican, George L. Hersey's book is the ideal guide. Before starting the tour of individual works, Hersey describes how the treacherously shifting political and religious alliances of sixteenth-century Italy, France, and Spain played themselves out in the Eternal City. He offers vivid accounts of the lives and personalities of four popes, each a great patron of art and architecture: Julius II, Leo X, Clement VII, and Paul III. He also tells of the complicated rebuilding and expanding of St. Peter's, a project in which Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo all took part. Having set the historical scene, Hersey then explores the Vatican's magnificent Renaissance art and architecture. In separate chapters, organized spatially, he leads the reader through the Cortile del Belvedere and Vatican Museums, with their impressive holdings of statuary and paintings; the richly decorated Stanze and Logge of Raphael; and Michelangelo's Last Judgment and newly cleaned Sistine Chapel ceiling. A fascinating final chapter entitled "The Tragedy of the Tomb" recounts the vicissitudes of Michelangelo's projected funeral monument to Julius II. Hersey is never content to simply identify the subject of a painting or sculpture. He gives us the story behind the works, telling us what their particular themes signified at the time for the artist, the papacy, and the Church. He also indicates how the art was received by contemporaries and viewed by later generations. Generously illustrated and complete with a useful chronology, High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican is a valuable reference for any traveler to Rome or lover of Italian art who has yearned for a single-volume work more informative and stimulating than ordinary guidebooks. At the same time, Hersey's many anecdotes and intriguing comparisons with works outside the Vatican will provide new insights even for specialists.

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320

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University of Chicago Press

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0226327825

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9780226327822

The Descendants of John Grant and Mary Sabean

Associated Families of Southwestern Nova Scotia and New England

By: George Allen Grant M.A.

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The Descendants of John Grant and Mary Sabean

Associated Families of Southwestern Nova Scotia and New England

By: George Allen Grant M.A.

In Nova Scotia, the focus of study about Scottish settlers, including the Grants, has been on the eastern counties of the province, and on Cape Breton Island. In the United States, when Grants are mentioned, a significant concern seems to be to find a genealogical or DNA link to Ulysses Grant. No one has seriously examined and written about the Grant families of southwestern Nova Scotia. That leaves a space for me to act in, and to develop a narrative history of a family founded in the soil, strengthened by the forest, and challenged by the sea environments that comprise the fundamental essence of Nova Scotia. And so, my passion has been to tell the story of my family and their relatives in southwestern Nova Scotia and to follow the paths of many of them to New England (especially to Massachusetts). This study will fulfill an implicit task left to me by my Aunt Ruth Dexter. That is the essence of why I have spent so much of my retirement on this task. But there is more to come as I follow suggestive clues left by my ancestors, or seek to overcome “brick walls” that stump every genealogist from time to time. When I began this project, my aim was simply: “To collate and present a family history of the line descending from John Grant and Mary Sabean to myself.” If I had stayed within that framework this book would have been much shorter and less interesting. As it turns out, there are many fascinating aspects to our story. Not only will you read about the hard-working and courageous children of John and Mary, but you will follow them and their offspring as they find love and marriage, sometimes with close or distant cousins. • You will ride or sail with them as they migrate within Nova Scotia and outward to New England. • You will wonder at their expressions of faith and sense their hidden, internal conflict as they make religious choices based on factors we can only imagine (spirituality, simplicity, availability, or energetic missionaries), reflected in obituaries, burial sites, or their answers to census questions. • You will share their sorrow at the deaths of loved ones through accident, disease, suicide, loss at sea or in the service of their country in war, particularly in World War I. • You will learn of their varied occupations, trades and professions, from farming, fishing and forestry to shoemaking, carpentry and sailing, nursing and teaching. • You will join them as they strive to become master mariners, volunteer in their churches, train young women with the YWCA in China, or succor the sick and wounded with the Red Cross in Siberia – follow them south to Boston and the Caribbean, east to Europe and across the Pacific to Asia. Only then you will come to understand why, at its core, my passion has been to be the voice of my direct ancestors and extended family within a defined framework of time and place, to record their activities where sources allow, in essence, to be the story they could not write.

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WestBow Press

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ISBN 13

9798385007097

High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican

An Interpretive Guide

By: George L. Hersey

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An Interpretive Guide

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0226327817

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George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

By: George Gilfillan,Robert Addison Watson,Elizabeth Sopia Watson

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George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

By: George Gilfillan,Robert Addison Watson,Elizabeth Sopia Watson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0526947594

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Book's by George L. Hersey

Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque

Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque

Falling in Love with Statues

Falling in Love with Statues

The Monumental Impulse

The Monumental Impulse

The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture

The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture

Possible Palladian Villas

Possible Palladian Villas

High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican

High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican

The Descendants of John Grant and Mary Sabean

The Descendants of John Grant and Mary Sabean

High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican

High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican

George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

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