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A classic account of the villa‿from ancient Rome to the twentieth century‿by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture� (Architect‿s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the mo...

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Two leading political thinkers offer an audacious proposal to energize the electoral process--a new national holiday to be held each presidential election year, during which people engage in structured debates about issues and candidates. "[This] lively, fast-moving [book is] concerned with a serious subject--restoring the health of American democracy, and it has a big idea about how to achieve it. . . . Fishkin and Ackerman are two of our liv...

These essays by one of America's foremost historians of art and architecture range over theory and criticism, the search for connections between art and science in the Renaissance, and specific works of Renaissance architecture.

In this widely acclaimed work, James Ackerman considers in detail the buildings designed by Michelangelo in Florence and Rome--including the Medici Chapel, the Farnese Palace, the Basilica of St. Peter, and the Capitoline Hill. He then turns to an examination of the artist's architectural drawings, theory, and practice. As Ackerman points out, Michelangelo worked on many projects started or completed by other architects. Consequently this stud...

An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory

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Luogo riservato al riposo, allo svago, all'otium, ma anche simbolo di potere politico o economico, la villa, nel corso dei secoli, riflette i mutamenti del gusto e delle esigenze di chi la abita. La sua struttura e la posizione che occupa nel paesaggio sono da sempre il segno tangibile di una volontà di affermazione e di dominio sull'ambiente circostante ed è per questo che descriverne le forme significa, prima di tutto, descrivere le abitudin...

Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.