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The Rektoratskirche St. Karl Borromäus, commonly called the Karlskirche, is a Baroque church located on the south side of Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria.
Vitruvius - On Architecture - De architectura - a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects.
Piranesi, Etching from the series: The Imaginary Prisons
The Prisons Series by Piranesi, 1750
The Prisons Series by Piranesi, 1750
La Citte Nuova by Antonio Sant’Elia, 1914
Hill with a Hole by Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, 1990
The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art critic & theorist John Ruskin. The 'lamps' of the title are Ruskin's principles of architecture, which he later enlarged upon in the three-volume The Stones of Venice.
The Triumphal Arch of Emperor Maximilian I (1515) Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian commissioned this extraordinary, grandiose triumphal arch in around 1515 to glorify himself and his ancestors.
Never a blueprint for a real arch, it was designed to decorate walls of town halls & ducal palaces throughout the Empire, modelled on arches of emperors of ancient Rome & made by pressing a 195 woodcuts onto 36 sheets of paper to form a huge 3.57 x 2.95 meter composite print.
Comparative height of the Great Pyramid at Giza with St. Peter's Basilica, St. Paul's Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, the Sphinx and the Acropolis by Charles Robert Cockerell (English, 1788–1863) Medium: pencil, pen and ink, watercolor on paper Size: 32.7x47.3cm. (12.9”x18.6”)
Alexandria was an international seaport from its start in 1749 (Source: Library of Congress)
Study of superimposed orders, ca. 1864
Emmanuel Brune (1836 - 1886)
Emmanuel Brune (1836 - 1886)
Hamburg, Germany
