Religious Buildings

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Wandmalereien, Skulpturen, Bilderhandschriften sowie Körperbilder des 16. Jahrhunderts in Mexiko. Julia Klos...

WINNER OF THE 2022 FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY BOOK AWARD The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens ...

This volume covers some of the finest landscape and architecture in southern England, much of it set within the South Downs National Park. The coun...

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peters Basilicadesigned by Michelangelocracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three ...

Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us.Shinto: The Japanese World of Kami Spirits is a concise guide t...

A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy This groundbreak...

Built primarily for public religious exercises, New England's wood-frame meetinghouses nevertheless were closely wedded to the social and cultural ...

The Hermits Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually re...

Space is all around us and we constantly refer to it. He is taking my space! This place is homely! This room is very impersonal! We need more room...

In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 19201960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful...

This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajector...

It has often been said that nowhere in the United States can one find a greater collection of magnificent and historic synagogues than on New Yorks...

A comprehensive account of Protestant church building in the early modern period throughout Europe. 26 German- and English-language contributions b...

The life of Antoni Gaudí (18521926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was...